Excuse Quotes
1674 Excuse quotes by 1175 unique authors
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Christmas is a poor excuse every 25th of December to pick a man's pockets.
— Charles Dickens
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She frowned."You're not very friendly." I let out a short laugh."What?I'm not friendly to a ghost who floats into my house and starts touching me?Well,excuse…
— Abbi Glines
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Adults, Sophie has decided a long time before, were really bad at making up good excuses.
— Michael Scott
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It was there, in particular, that I confirmed the truth that love, which we cry up as the source of our pleasures, is nothing more…
— Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
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As long as we have Netfix, Turner Classic Movies, Amazon, YouTube, and bookstores, there is no excuse ever to lack inspiration.
— Tim Gunn
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Someone once said that nothing costs more and yields less benefit than revenge,” Aomame said. “Winston Churchill. As I recall it, though, he was making…
— Haruki Murakami
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We should challenge the relativism that tells us there is no right or wrong, when every instinct of our mind knows it is not so,…
— Jonathan Sacks
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Schist," said an angry voice from the grass. Hazel raised her eyebrows. "Excuse me?" "Schist! Big pile of schist!
— Rick Riordan
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In middle school, my friends decided I was weird, and they didn’t like my hair. They ditched me and talked behind my back, which is…
— Taylor Swift
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Sure, we were friends who exchanged soulful glances, friends who slept in a bed filled with sexual tension, friends who found any excuse to touch,…
— Emily Giffin
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The strong look for more strength, the weak for excuses.
— Margaret George
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Win without boasting. Lose without excuse.
— Albert Payson Terhune
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Do not make excuses, whether it's your fault or not.
— George S. Patton
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I don't know," I said. "Maybe you're right, and all that stuff I think I missed is overrated. Why should I even bother? What's the…
— Sarah Dessen
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Excuse me, Abigail, but whose shift did she get away during?' Townsend asked with a glare. 'Excuse me, Townsend, but who was supposed to booby-trap…
— Ally Carter
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Excuse me, but aren't boys forbidden on this floor?' Macey said on our way to the suite. 'That's the advantage of being the only boy,'…
— Ally Carter
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Some gave me soft words and some blunt, some made excuses, some promises, some only lied. In the end words are just wind.
— George R. R. Martin
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The sad thing is, people don't want to believe that the person they're in love with is out of his mind, drinking and using, so…
— Anthony Kiedis
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Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions, inside the walls of a hospital... Doubt is like dye. Once is spreads into the fabric of excuses…
— Jodi Picoult
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There will never be a good time, financially, to get married, unless you're Shaq or Ray Romano. But somehow people manage. If your man is…
— Greg Behrendt
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The word “busy” is the relationship Weapon of Mass Destruction. It seems like a good excuse, but in fact, in every silo you uncover, all…
— Greg Behrendt
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If God exists, I hope he has a good excuse.
— Woody Allen
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She wants to believe my excuses so bad. Every time I lie, she wants to believe me so much.
— Jay Asher
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How inexplicable it seems. Anything else will be accepted as a better excuse. If one sets aside time for a business appointment, a trip to…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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If the Good Lord made a mistake in us people it was in making us want to live when we’ve got the least excuse for…
— Jim Thompson
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