Alibi Quotes
34 quotes by 26 authors
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The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.
— Albert Camus
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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
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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
— Napoleon Hill
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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
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There are whole years for which I hope I'll never be cross-examined, for I could not give an alibi.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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'Home Alone' was a movie, not an alibi.
— Jerry Orbach
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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
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Think and then act. Never act and then alibi.
— Henry Iba
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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
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The biggest pests are the people who use altruism as an alibi. What they passionately wish is to make themselves important.
— Isabel Paterson
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None of us are pretty, but our ugly has an alibi.
— Andrea Gibson
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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
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I graduated first in my class from alibi school.
— Jeffrey McDaniel
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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
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An alibi is a reason with a bad reputation.
— Doug Larson
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Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.
— Eric Hoffer
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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
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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
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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
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People always ask me, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' Well, I don't have an alibi.
— Emo Philips
Who Wrote These Alibi Quotes
26 authors contributed a total of 34 Alibi Quotes, led by these top contributors: