Excuse Quotes
1674 Excuse quotes by 1175 unique authors
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I won’t snatch, harm, or scare to death people with you or use checking up on you as an excuse to cause trouble. You’re worse…
— Kim Harrison
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The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
— Oscar Wilde
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What is past is past. never go back. Not for excuses. Not for justification, not for happiness. You are what you are, the world is…
— Mario Puzo
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You’re not terrified of me. You’re terrified of letting yourself care for me, and I can’t say I blame you. People who love me usually…
— Gaelen Foley
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Sorry excuses for hunters and friends. Both of us.
— Suzanne Collins
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IMPORTANT Book reading is a solitary and sedentary pursuit, and those who do are cautioned that a book should be used as an integral part…
— Garrison Keillor
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If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.
— Jim Rohn
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99% percent of failures are the ones who make excuses.
— George Washington
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If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell you something. If…
— Rita Mae Brown
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I don't feel so good." Lula said. And she farted. She squeezed her eyes shut tight and did a full minute-long fart. "Excuse me." she…
— Janet Evanovich
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There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly…
— Terry Pratchett
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Did ya get in a couple of good swipes?" Emmett asked eagerly. "No! Of course not!" "No, not really? You really didnt attack him?" "Emmett!"…
— Stephenie Meyer
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There is no excuse for bad manners, except fast reflexes.
— Steven Brust
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I’m not fit to occupy space. Excuse me for living.
— Flora Rheta Schreiber
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Now I'm living out my life in a corner, trying to console myself with the stupid, useless excuse that an intelligent man cannot turn himself…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I could point out that it isn't always easy knowing who you are and what you want, because then you have no excuse for not…
— David Levithan
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Off with you" is a phrase used by people who lack the curtesy to say something more polite, such as, "if there's nothing else you…
— Daniel Handler
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Myrnin came in from the back room, carrying a load of books, which he dropped with a loud bang on the floor to glare at…
— Rachel Caine
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The fact that you can only do a little is no excuse for doing nothing.
— John le Carre
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I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.
— Ned Vizzini
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Excuse me? You're a lady?" "I bought a title on the Internet. I own one square inch of Scotland. And you're changing the subject.
— Rachel Caine
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She tried to remind herself that beauty was only skin deep, but that didn't offer any helpful excuses when she was berating herself for never…
— Julia Quinn
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Little girls, like butterflies, need no excuse,
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Once upon a time, the Reindeer took a running leap and jumped over the Northern Lights. But he jumped too low, and the long fur…
— Vera Nazarian
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Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world's excuse for being ugly.
— Leonard Cohen
Who Wrote These Excuse Quotes
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