Quotes About Excuse

throw up his hands and say, 'Who, me? I had nothing to do with it.'

Intentions, yours or anyone else's, don't matter; they never matter and never excuse.

There have been so many misunderstandings in the past. What you did, often, was done for good reason. I know I am simple. I know you are devious. But, oh God, if there is any good reason for what you are doing now; any excuse; any unknown factor or subtle circumstance you are afraid I can't grasp, for the mercy of God, this time, tell me.

If you will excuse us?' 'Go to Sir Henry's room,' Lady Mary called after her. 'And if you use weapons, be sure to call witnesses.

Intentions, yours or anyone else's, don't matter; they never matter and never excuse: get that into your head.

I grant," said Lady Buccleuch with a certain grim amusement, "that the pure springs of chivalry may be a little muddy in the Hawick area, but that's no proper excuse for calling his father an unprincipled old rogue, and every other peer in Scotland a traitorous scoundrel.

It sounded well. It sounded rational, even, if you were not Francis Crawford. Put him, blindfold, in a closed room anywhere in the world … Lymond said, 'And that is your only excuse?' And Sybilla met his gaze with eyes as uncompromising as his own. 'I thought I was the excuse for your whole way of life?' she said calmly. And nothing had prepared him for that.

Excuse my dust.

When asked by her publisher why her work had not been submitted while on her honeymoon: I've been too fucking busy or vice versa

What? Excuse me? "La, a note to follow so . . ." What kind of lame excuse for a line is that? Well, it's obvious what kind of line it is. It's a placeholder.

Me ha dicho el médico que tengo mal formada una glándula del deber social y una deficiencia congénita en la fibra moral y que por tanto estoy excusado de salvar universos.

He's spending a year dead for tax reasons.

An artist! An excuse for every kind of loose living, for drunkenness, for brawling, for infidelity.

Mas nós não somos selvagens! Somos civilizados hoje em dia. - Há diferentes tipos de civilizações... - disse Bob vagamente. - Além disso, eu prefiro pensar que todos temos algo de selvageria dentro de nós... Se conseguirmos pensar em uma boa desculpa para deixá-la escapar.

I rather think we've all got a bit of savage in us — if we can think up a good excuse for letting it rip.

To put it more precisely, I used the fact that I could not contact them as an excuse to extricate myself from this painful illegal political movement. It was not a case of the leftist movement's fever dying down; it was a case of my own leftist fever not having been a very serious one.

Busyness is not a reason for not getting other things done. It is an excuse for not claiming your true priorities.

Photography has always been a major part of my vision: my excuse for meddling with what the world looks like.

A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.

The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

Excuse me, but if you have time to work here—in between flirting and getting directions to parties—there's a fly in my nachos," Mr. Warner said. "Enjoy it!" I said to Mr. Warner. "It's on the house.

I use filming as an excuse to take classes. I got my certification in sailing for 'Wedding Crashers ' and now I can handle a 26-foot boat. I played a seamstress once, so I took sewing classes. I love dipping into these other lives.

The lawyer plays on sympathies, tugs on heartstrings, and twists everything around so that somehow the rapist or murderer becomes the victim. Perhaps the lawyer's story of neglect and abuse is true. Sad, perhaps. But to me, it never cut it as an excuse. The dead person is the victim, and the murderer is the murderer.

Rhodora! if the sages ask thee whyThis charm is wasted on the earth and sky,Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing,Then Beauty is its own excuse for being.