QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON REMORSE

Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.

William C. Bryant (1794-1878, American poet, newspaper editor)

Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873, British novelist, poet)

Remorse begets reform.

William Cowper (1731-1800, British poet)

Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell.

George Moore (1852-1933, Irish writer)

To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1819-1892, American poet)

Remorse is regret that one waited so long to do it.

H. L. Mencken (1880-1956, American editor, author, critic, humorist)

One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.

Ogden Nash (1902-1971, American humorous poet)

Remorse is the pain of sin.

Theodore Parker (1810-1860, American minister)

 Back to Daimon Library English Quotes Search Page