"The things I said about you were true, only I shouldn't have said them." -- Anne Shirley, in AnneOfGreenGables.
-- EdwardKiser
"Never intended to break the rules
But whiskey don't make liars, it just makes fools
So I didn't mean to say it
But I meant what I said"
-- from James McMurtry's song "Too Long in the Wasteland"
In writing, one of the TextSmells.