C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Apology
No sensible person ever made an apology.
Emerson.
A very desperate habit; one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out. Nine times out of ten, the first thing a man’s companion knows of his short-comings is from his apology.
Holmes.
Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
O. W. Holmes.
There are occasions on which all apology is rudeness.
Dr. Johnson.
Apologies only account for the evil which they cannot alter.
Disraeli.