Quotes about Apologies

Susan Vance: Oh, David, they're broken (his glasses). I'm so sorry.
David Huxley: Oh it doesn't make any difference. The things I've been doing today I could do just as well with my eyes shut.

- Cary Grant (as Dr. David Huxley) in Bringing up Baby (1938)

Igor Sullivan: Sorry Julian whoever you are.

- Rick Lenz (as Igor Sullivan) in Cactus Flower (1969)

Scarlett: Oh, Rhett, Rhett please don't say that. I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry for everything.
Rhett Butler: My darling, you're such a child. You think that by saying, "I'm sorry," all the past can be corrected. Here, take my handkerchief. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.

- Clark Gable (as Rhett Butler) in Gone with the Wind (1939)

Wade Hatton: Miss Irving, I'll not be troubling you with any further apologies but I would like you to know that if ever I could be of any sevice to you, I should be only too happy...
Abbie Irving: Thank you. The only way you could be of service to me is to keep out of my sight.

- Olivia de Havilland (as Abbie Irving) in Dodge City (1939)

Jim Blandings: Muriel, would it do any good to say I'm sorry?
Muriel Blandings: I don't know.
Jim Blandings: Well I am. I've behaved like a school boy and I'm sorry.

- Cary Grant (as Jim Blandings) in Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)

Bilge: Connie, I've been wanting to say this to you but I... I don't know how, uh... Can't we start again, just like we did in the beginning?
Connie Martin: I'm afraid you missed the beginning. This is the end of the show.

- Harriet Hilliard (as Connie Martin) in Follow the Fleet (1936)

Ambassador Trentino: I'm sorry we lost our tempers; I'm willing to forgot if you are.
Rufus T. Firefly: Forget? You ask me to forget? A Firefly never forgets. Why, my ancestors would rise from their graves, and I'd only have to bury them again.

- Groucho Marx (as Rufus T. Firefly) in Duck Soup (1933)

Rhett Butler: You're like the thief who isn't the least bit sorry he stole, but is terribly, terribly sorry he's going to jail.

- Clark Gable (as Rhett Butler) in Gone with the Wind (1939)

Dr. Peter Blood: Miss Bishop, it's difficult for an Irishman to apologize; but I hope you can forgive me for having thought badly of you.
Arabella Bishop: I will if you tell me how you think of me now.
Dr. Peter Blood: How I think of you now? I think of you... I think of you as the woman who owns me - her slave. But I think the man is lucky who can count you his friend.
Arabella Bishop: I think you know YOU can.

- Olivia de Havilland (as Arabella Bishop) in Captain Blood (1935)

Bake Baker: I don't often try to apologize 'cause I seldom make any mistakes.

- Fred Astaire (as Bake Baker) in Follow the Fleet (1936)