Who said never explain never apologize

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Bry, as it happens, recalls travelling in India and drinking Thums Up and Campa-Cola, almost indistinguishable knockoffs of American sodas. But would a university publisher purposely crib the look of a modest-selling literary work? Innocence would preclude apology. There was howling last week, amid a rash of public apologies, many of them botched.

I apologized! Nugent and Laurence Stallings. The line is spoken by John Wayne and the exact quote reads, "Never apologize and never explain--it's a sign of weakness. Never explain. Never apologize. Those are the secrets of a happy life! Response by poster: Fantastic. Thanks, azure. From p.

Like most aphorisms whose philosophical premises are muted by brevity, this one may be interpreted in more than one way. For example, it could be taken as a mandate for hubristic behavior or as a profession of pessimism and futility about the possibility of accurate communication between human beings The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort of people take a mean advantage of them.

Aha, and the essay is in a collection that's on Google Books : "He exemplifies, like so many of his characters, the great precept of Benjamin Jowett to young Englishmen just starting their careers: 'Never apologize, never explain.

Jowett, of Oxford, said: 'Never apologize, never explain.