Alibi Quotes

34 quotes by 26 authors

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants. — Albert Camus
It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway. — Albert Camus
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility. — Napoleon Hill
Conscription is an impediment to achieving the forces Australia needs. It is an alibi for failing to give proper conditions to regular soldiers. We will… — Gough Whitlam
There are whole years for which I hope I'll never be cross-examined, for I could not give an alibi. — Mignon McLaughlin
'Home Alone' was a movie, not an alibi. — Jerry Orbach
You must have an alibi to show why you lost. If you haven't one, you must fake one. You self confidence must be maintained. — Christy Mathewson
Think and then act. Never act and then alibi. — Henry Iba
If you pick up a golfer and hold it close to your ear, like a conch shell, and listen, you will hear an alibi. — Fred Beck
The biggest pests are the people who use altruism as an alibi. What they passionately wish is to make themselves important. — Isabel Paterson
None of us are pretty, but our ugly has an alibi. — Andrea Gibson
Never ask a man where's he's been. If he's out on legitimate business, he doesn't need an alibi. And, girls, if he has been out… — Mae West
I graduated first in my class from alibi school. — Jeffrey McDaniel
For the West, the demonization of Vladimir Putin is not a policy; it is an alibi for the absence of one. Putin is a serious… — Henry A. Kissinger
An alibi is a reason with a bad reputation. — Doug Larson
Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise. — Eric Hoffer
It's the notion that there is no perfection - that there is a broken world and we live with broken hearts and broken lives but… — Leonard Cohen
It would be a real failure if agreeing that it [abortion] was not an electoral issue provided an alibi for taking it seriously as a… — Rowan Williams
But we can't alibi all our ills by just knocking the old banker. First he loaned the money, then the people all at once wanted… — Will Rogers
People always ask me, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' Well, I don't have an alibi. — Emo Philips

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