“Never apologise, never explain.”

“Never apologise for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologise for the truth.”

Edmund Burke (1729–1797) Anglo-Irish statesman

“I never stole in my childhood, so there was no question of apologising to my father.”

Nathuram Godse (1910–1949) Assassin of Mahatma Gandhi

“Never complain, never explain.”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

“Never complain. Never explain.”

Katharine Hepburn (1907–2003) film, stage, and television actress

“Never explain, never complain.”

Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister

“Never Explain Anything”

H.P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) American author

“Never complain, never explain. Resist the temptation to defend yourself or make excuses.”

Brian Tracy (1944) American motivational speaker and writer

“I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.”

James A. Michener (1907–1997) American author

“Only peons made excusses for themselves she taught me. Never apologize, never explain.”

Janet Fitch book White Oleander