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Regret Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a…
- We live, I regret to say, in an age of Big Data hype.
- The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
- Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are…
- The worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing; this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by taking my books…
- The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.
- Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight For the greatest tragedy of them all Is never to feel the burning light.
- To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of…
- But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's…
- Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.
- It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure.
- I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does.…
- Ones real life is often the life that one does not lead.
- Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them.
More Regret Quotes
- The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel. — Neil Armstrong
- I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to… — Darren Aronofsky
- I don't regret setting bombs. — Bill Ayers
- I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If… — Lauren Bacall
- I'm not really one for regrets. — David Bailey
- Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so. — Ray Stannard Baker
- I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done. — Lucille Ball
- I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent. — Lucille Ball
- I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end. — Drew Barrymore
- A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. — John Barrymore
- The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive. — Orlando Aloysius Battista
- No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found. — Samuel Beckett