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Regret: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel, He nursed the pinion, which impell'd the steel.— BYRON — English Bards and Scotch

C. Reviewers. L. 823. Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, And broke the die-in moulding Sheridan.— BYRON — Monody on the Death of the Rt. Hon. R. B. Sheridan. L. 117.

Thou wilt lament Hereafter, when the evil shall be done And shall admit no cure.— HOMER — Iliad. Bk. IX. L. 308.

Bryant's trans. No simple word That shall be uttered at our mirthful board, Shall make us sad next morning; or affright The liberty that we'll enjoy to-night.— BEN JONSON — Epigram CI.

O lost days of delight, that are wasted in doubting and waiting! O lost hours and days in which we might have been happy!— LONGFELLOW — Tales of a Wayside Inn. Pt. III. The Theologian's Tale.

Elizabeth. For who, alas! has lived, Nor in the watches of the night recalled Words he has wished unsaid and deeds undone.— SAM'L ROGERS — Reflections. L. 52.

I could have better spar'd a better man.— Shakespeare — Henry IV. Pt. I. Act V. Sc. 4. L. 104.

For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!"— WHITTIER — Maud Muller. L. 105.