Quotes About Alibi

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.

Par," said Wilfred Wimp, "what's a alleybi? A marble?" "No, my lad," said Grodman, "it means being somewhere else when you're supposed to be somewhere." "Ah, playing truant," said Wilfred self-consciously; his schoolmaster had often proved an alibi against him. "Then Denzil will be hanged.

I got out of the shower and looked in the mirror, wet hair plastered against my forehead, a grin on my face. My plan had worked! I had my perfect alibi for a perfect crime.

Get a grip, Haskell.  Find a target, blast it, cook up an alibi.  What's complicated about that?

Today, religion in the empirical sense—the word and the thing—is more and more the recourse of the reactionary, the resentful, the undereducated, the anti-scientific, an alibi for white supremacism and sexism, packing its guns, standing its ground against immigrants and people who look different, instead of welcoming "the widow, the orphan, and the stranger," as the prophets enjoin.

crime? No, he was not. He insisted he knew nothing

There are, fortunately, very few people who can say that they have actually attended a murder.

A police officer asked me where I was between 4 and 5? I said kindergarten.

Sin always overpromises and underdelivers, while righteousness pays dividends for eternity... Nothing is more illogical than sin. It's the epitome of poor judgment. It's temporary insanity with eternal consequences. And we have no alibi, save the cross of Jesus Christ.

If the cops didn't see it, I didn't do it!

I was brought up among the sort of self-important women who had a husband as one has an alibi.

No, I didn't kill the dead human. If I had, I wouldn't dump the body in the station mall, for fuck's sake.)

Gets blamed for a lot of things, does the weather. Convenient scapegoat, if you ask me.

And if we get caught, I will claim I made you go. At gunpoint. I am American. People will assume I'm armed.

The limping of philosophy is its virtue. True irony is not an alibi; it is a task; and the very detachment of the philosopher assigns to him a certain kind of action among men.

There are whole years for which I hope I'll never be cross-examined, for I could not give an alibi.

What was the crime, who did it, when was it done, and where? How done, and with what motive, who in the deed did share?

If you're going to ask me to provide myself with three nice little alibis," said Hersey, "you may as well know straight away that I can't do it. I seem to remember reading somewhere that that makes me innocent and I'm sure I hope it's true" "It's in the best tradition of detective fiction, I understand," said Allyen with a smile.