Regretted

Famous quotes containing the word regretted:

“Here lies my dear wife, a sad slattern and a shrew.
If I said I regretted her, I should lie too.”
—Anonymous. From H. J. Loaring’s Curious Records (1872)

“It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)

“Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering; and therefore its pursuit by women is much more to be regretted than its pursuit by men, because women pursue much more violently and recklessly what they pursue at all.”
—Ouida [Marie Louise De La Ramée] (1839–1908)