Apologetic Tone Quotes

I just was apologizing for maybe being a little goofy.

I think a lot of American comedies tend to apologize for their bad behavior in the last 10 minutes of the movie.

Every new president flatters himself that he, kinder and gentler, is beginning the world anew. Yet, when Barack Obama in his inaugural address reached out to Muslims by saying, 'To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect,' his formulation was needlessly defensive and apologetic.

I categorically declare first my absolute innocence, second my lack of criminal intent, and third my effusive apologies.

Many young adults I have communicated with - both in-person and over email - constantly apologize before stating their idea, or finish each sentence with a question. Unfortunately, doing so in business puts you at an immediate disadvantage with your boss and work colleagues.

Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.

A play is not a tweet. It can't be compressed and embedded, and it definitely can't be delivered apologetically.

I read 'The Hobbit' but not a single one of the 'Lord of the Rings' trilogy. I had to lie about this pretty much all through high school. I still say it apologetically.

Yes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I'd never used it. I'm 34. Perhaps it was a word for my 20s.

I didn't mean to turn you on.

So I'm in the library, and I have keyboards out and my headphones out. Everybody's like, "Mike are you making beats right now?" and I'm like, "Yeah... sorry!"

I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general style.

I'm not really a current events guy, sadly.

A lot of first-time filmmakers are almost apologizing for their movie by saying, 'Well, we only had 18 days to shoot, you know.'

It would appear, from the best examples, that the proper way of beginning a preface to one's work is with a humble apology for having written at all.