Excuse Quotes

Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

Well, I work out three to four times a week, in a gym, which - thank God - is right in my building here in New York City. It's in the Reebok building, and it's got every kind of weightlifting equipment you can imagine, spread out over six floors, plus basketball courts and everything else. And because it's right in the building, there's no excuse.

People like to let loose at rock concerts and it gives them an excuse to do it in a way that is not destructive to others and not really destructive to the band.

As you get older, you don't really have any excuse to be stupid anymore, to be in the dark.

I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

The liberals in the House strongly resemble liberals I have known through the last two decades in the civil rights conflict. When it comes time to show on which side they will be counted, they excuse themselves.

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

The small companies who feel that the majors are a threat, or are predators, will use that as an excuse for their eventual downfall. Don't blame others for your own inadequacies.

The concept of the "good ol' days" must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success.

There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do - and I believe that.

Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.

A lot of times in sport if you try to tell the truth it seems like an excuse.

I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me.

Excuse my scribbling, it is late, and I have a poor candle.

Scrooge pushed past Mary number 1 and Joseph number 2 in the wings without so much as an "excuse me". Typical.

You know that murder is wicked. If you saw your master kill a man, do you suppose this would be any excuse for you, if you should commit the same crime?

The world used us as an excuse to go mad.

Some bloke came up to me in Tesco a couple of years ago at 11:30 pm and said: 'Excuse me, would you mind telling my son here that you're Uncle Vernon?' I said: 'Get a grip. It's 11:30 at night - what's he doing out of bed? I'm not here to entertain people at this time of night.

An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame.

I just noticed recently that in one book after another I seem to find an excuse to find some character who, to put it idiotically simply, is allowed to talk crazy.

You can take what is handed to you and use it as an excuse to mess up. But I've always handled what was given to me by life. I consider myself lucky. I was never lied to. And I was loved.

It's a great excuse and luxury, having a job and blaming it for your inability to do your own art. When you don't have to work, you are left with the horror of facing your own lack of imagination and your own emptiness. A devastating possibility when finally time is your own.

Everybody in Hollywood was in Around the World in 80 Days. If you weren't, you left town and made up an excuse.

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.

A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts.

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.

Excuse me while I kiss the sky.