Excuse Quote by Dorothy Osborne Download Open image “Will the kindness of this letter excuse the shortness of it?” — Dorothy Osborne ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Excuse Excuse Shortness Kindness Kindness Letter Letter Letter Excuse Letters Shortness
You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I have made this letter longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I think one of the dullest things in the world is a letter filled with apologies for not writing sooner. — Dorothy Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing. — Brendan Behan Copy Share Image
“I'm sorry this letter is so long. I didn't have time to make it shorter.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Please forgive the long letter; I didn’t have time to write a short one.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation - a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Letters are no matter of indifference; they are generally a very positive curse.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Tis an admirable thing to see how some people will labour to find out terms that may obscure a plain sense, like a gentleman… — Dorothy Osborne Copy Share Image
I do not know that ever I desired anything earnestly in my life but 'twas denied me, and I am many times afraid to… — Dorothy Osborne Copy Share Image
To marry for love were no reproachful thing if we did not see that of ten thousand couples that do it, hardly one can… — Dorothy Osborne Copy Share Image
“But 'tis a sad thing that all one's happiness is only that the world does not know you are miserable.” — Dorothy Osborne Copy Share Image
What an age do we live in, when 'tis a miracle if in ten couples that are married, two of them live so as… — Dorothy Osborne Copy Share Image
All letters, methinks, should be free and easy as one's discourse, not studied, as an oration, nor made up of hard words like a… — Dorothy Osborne Copy Share Image
The greatest act of courage is to be and to ownall of who you are—without apology, without excuses, without masks to cover the truth… — Debbie Ford Copy Share Image
The vision of the left, full of envy and resentment, takes its worst toll on those at the bottom - whether black or white… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
My non-career. My excuse for a career? Honestly, I never think about the word 'career.' I've had managers, the minute they say it to… — Tom Verlaine Copy Share Image
The number of poor, and poorly prepared, students who succeed in college and beyond undercuts the simplistic notion that economic or educational disadvantage is… — Roland Merullo Copy Share Image
International friendly games are not worth the lives of the silk worms who perish to make the pennants. They do not even have the… — Danny Baker Copy Share Image
And the commitment that I've been giving to the Australian people is that there'll be no surprises and no excuses under a Coalition government. — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
Using, as an excuse, others' failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I resolutely believe that respect for diversity is a fundamental pillar in the eradication of racism, xenophobia and intolerance. There is no excuse for… — Rigoberta Menchu Copy Share Image
I'm not the guy who will sit in a room with somebody who's using a bunch of big words and just act like I… — Mark Wahlberg Copy Share Image
