Quotes About Alibi

Ordinarily, an alibi is an account of suspect's whereabouts at the time a crime was committed and it's offered up as proof of innocence, but here it didn't matter where anyone was.

his alibi. Trouble is, with him living on that

An excuse is a skin of a reason stuffed with a lie.

Who better to blame it on than a fairy?

The only way to prove I didn't do it is to prove who did," I said. "That's the law of innocence.

I'm sure you could have. Fending off unwanted male attention is a skill every attractive woman must acquire. But you're also a lady who was reluctant to cause a scene.. (Hammond Cross)

If Gisele murdered her husband, I can assure you my Henri wasn't involved. He's much too lazy for murder.

I'm sure they're investigating everyone who was in the area.

I have to return some video tapes. – Patrick Bateman's all-purpose exit excuse in American Psycho

He was like this when I got here?' That's you alibi?

Vielleicht gibt es ja gar keine tollen, wunderbaren Menschen. Und wir reden es uns für eine kurze Weile nur ein, dass der oder der toll und wunderbar ist, damit wir einen Grund haben, uns in ihn zu verlieben. Sozusagen ein Alibi für die Liebe.

Some people have an identity. I have an alibi. I have a shadow self.

The Rites of Beauty also seduce women by meeting their current hunger for color and poetry. As they make their way into male public space that is often prosaic and emotionally dead, beauty's sacraments glow brighter than ever. As women are inundated with claims on their time, ritual products give them an alibi to take some private time for themselves. At their best they give women back a taste of mystery and sensuality to compensate them for their days spent in the harsh light of the workplace.

The four of us piled inside. Hi pressed five. The doors slid shut. "Hope nobody else needs a lift," Shelton whispered. "We can make something up," Hi hissed. "Say we lost our pony." I snorted. "And came to report it at one a.m.?" "Better than breaking in to steal evidence," Hi countered. "Maybe we loved that pony.

If he had stopped in before he was killed, then the cops would be after Yasuko something fierce.

people who had lawyers just to prove how absolutely not guilty they were. (Of anything.)

Ya sé lo que está pensando, jefe: el primer sospechoso es el cónyuge, pero no nos sirve, porque David Rosen tiene una buena coartada. —¿Cuál? —Se murió de un paro cardíaco en 1988.

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

It is necessary to fall in love – the better to provide an alibi for all the despair we are going to feel anyway.

Unfortunately, love is more often an alibi than a reason.

Syverstad was at Vemork, and Nielsen in an Oslo hospital, awaiting an appendectomy that his sister, a nurse there, had arranged for him to have on Sunday—the perfect alibi.

Optimism has always seemed to me the cunning alibi of egoists, anxious to cover up their state of chronic self-satisfaction. They are optimists in order to avoid pitying other men and their misfortune.

For those who have the habit of prayer, thought is too often a mere alibi, a sly way of deciding to do what one wants to do.  Reason will always obscure what we wish to keep in the shadows.

At least this time, with this murder, she knew he had an alibi. At the time Cicely Towers was having her throat slashed, Roarke had been fucking the hell out of the investigating officer.