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)

“Napoleon never wished to be justified. He killed his enemy according to Corsican traditions [le droit corse] and if he sometimes regretted his mistake, he never understood that it had been a crime.”
—Guillaume-Prosper, Baron De Barante (1782–1866)