Top 100 Excuse Quotes

#1. Once you have love as a motivator in a story, your character is free to do anything. Once you say the character is in love, he can do the craziest thing that nobody would do who's not in love. Once you're in love, you have that excuse to go and do whatever you want.

Josh Hutcherson

Excuse Quotes #228
#2. Procrastination and excuses are sour spices that spoil the sweet taste of an effective work. They must hence, not be prompted under desire, partly because they are strictly time-stripping and also because they have no known essence.

Israelmore Ayivor

Excuse Quotes #1364
#3. The 'fear of change' excuse is something you see trotted out by organizations or management that believe customers are old, stupid, ignorant, and stubborn.

Ian Lamont

Excuse Quotes #1869
#4. The Australian people expect the Government to govern, they don't expect it to make excuses.

Tony Abbott

Excuse Quotes #3748
#5. Tagged by a whiny little vamp. Rache, take this sword and stick it in me. Just go and stick it in me. I'm a back-drafted, crumpled-winged, dust-caked, dew-assed excuse of a backup. Worthless as a pixy condom. Taken down by my own partner. Just tape my ass shut and let me fart out my mouth.

Kim Harrison

Excuse Quotes #6372
#6. A wonderful laugh is no excuse for villainous behavior!

Lemony Snicket

Excuse Quotes #7831
#7. Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.

Steve Martin

Excuse Quotes #8456
#8. Make time, not excuses.

Grant Cardone

Excuse Quotes #9168
#9. I'm not a big believer in long-term planning and far-off goals. In fact, I generally set 3-month and 6-month dreamlines. The variables change too much and in-the-future distance becomes an excuse for postponing action.

Tim Ferriss

Excuse Quotes #9813
#10. Your hurt is not an excuse to take.
Your loneliness is not an excuse to cheat.
Your desire is not a reason to rape.
You raped me, and now, I'm going to rape you.

Courtney C. Stevens

Excuse Quotes #10791
#11. Ronald Reagan has a story for every occasion. Bill Clinton has an excuse for every occasion.

Fred Barnes

Excuse Quotes #11391
#12. What the hell do you think you're doing going and getting yourself kidnapped? You almost gave me apoplexy!" "Well, excuse me Queen of the World. I'm so sorry I inconvenienced you!

Tamara Hoffa

Excuse Quotes #11408
#13. The problem with all-or-nothing thinking is that it stops people even taking the first steps. The thought of never having pepperoni pizza again somehow turns into an excuse to keep ordering it every week.

Michael Greger

Excuse Quotes #12753
#14. Every night I vow to work out in the morning. For the past three years, however, I have always found an excuse not to.

Matthew Vaughn

Excuse Quotes #13737
#15. Priests, like all of us, are affected by culture, ... When the culture is sick, every element in it becomes infected. While it is no excuse for this scandal, it is no surprise that Boston, a seat of academic, political and cultural liberalism in America, lies at the center of the storm.

Rick Santorum

Excuse Quotes #13993
#16. Boy, this shall not excuse the injuries that
Thou hast done to me.
Therefore turn and draw.

William Shakespeare

Excuse Quotes #14053
#17. I don't see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, 'I'ma do that,' and they do it. That's it. There's no scientifical process.

Kevin Hart

Excuse Quotes #14362
#18. I was doing that [ a collaboration with Kurt Cobain] to try to save his life. The collaboration was me calling up as an excuse to reach out to this guy. He was in a really bad place.

Michael Stipe

Excuse Quotes #14622
#19. Excuse me. I didn't know I was talking to a master."
"Tres Navarre," I said. "I usually wear a t-shirt, says 'Master.' It's in the wash.

Rick Riordan

Excuse Quotes #14677
#20. Studios, to cut through the clutter, want recognisable titles. But that does not excuse you, as a writer, from having an original story.

Roberto Orci

Excuse Quotes #15819
#21. I would like to take revenge but I'm not looking for excuses for having lost to her

Elena Dementieva

Excuse Quotes #15874
#22. People who say it takes money to make money are using the worst excuse ever ... Create massive value for others by providing a solution where no other exists.

Matt Mickiewicz

Excuse Quotes #16451
#23. Truman Capote famously claimed to have nearly absolute recall of dialogue and used his prodigious memory as an excuse never to take notes or use a tape recorder, but I suspect his memory claims were just a useful cover to invent dialogue whole cloth.

Joshua Foer

Excuse Quotes #18016
#24. Outside nature, against nature, without excuse, beyond remedy, except what remedy I find within myself.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Excuse Quotes #18096
#25. We spend too much time telling girls that they cannot be angry or aggressive or tough, which is bad enough, but then we turn around and either praise or excuse men for the same reasons.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Excuse Quotes #18945
#26. Coach Hedge grunted like he was pleased to have an excuse. He unclipped the megaphone from his belt and continued giving directions, but his voice came out like Darth Vader's. The kids cracked up. The coach tried again, but this time the megaphone blared: The cow says moo!

Rick Riordan

Excuse Quotes #19469
#27. Speaking psycho-analytically, it may be laid down that any "great ideal" which people mention with awe is really an excuse for inflicting pain on their enemies. Good wine needs no bush, and good morals need no bated breath.

Bertrand Russell

Excuse Quotes #19528
#28. One excuse, could destroy a multitude of chances.

Anthony Liccione

Excuse Quotes #23145
#29. 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 my rudeness but this is a little disturbing.

Abbi Glines

Excuse Quotes #23805
#30. I won't be the reason you don't go to him. I won't be your excuse. You've got to see for yourself, or you'l never be able to let him go
Jeremiah Fisher

Jenny Han

Excuse Quotes #24085
#31. Maybe age is kinder to us than we think. With my bad eyes, I can't see how bad I look, and with my rotten memory, I have a good excuse for getting out of a lot of stuff.

Erma Bombeck

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#32. All who live in tyranny and hopelessness can know: The United States will not ignore your oppression, or excuse your oppressors. When you stand for your liberty, we will stand with you.

George W. Bush

Excuse Quotes #29926
#33. The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to regain our strength.

George W. Bush

Excuse Quotes #32124
#34. The kids didn't call me Amy Schumer; they called me Amy Jewmer. One summer, I'll never forget this, all the kids took turns throwing handfuls of pennies at me. I know, I was like, 'Excuse me - this is awesome!

Amy Schumer

Excuse Quotes #32381
#35. Don't try to prove to everybody that the reason why you can't is that nobody could. It's no excuse. You can break the tradition by being the first person to make it happen!

Israelmore Ayivor

Excuse Quotes #33042
#36. Maud Gonne was - excuse me, Maud Gonne was central to the Gaelic literature revival. She wrote plays, and she sang.

Derrick Jensen

Excuse Quotes #33620
#37. The research. It is always the best part of writing. And, of course, it is the great excuse to travel.

Michael Scott

Excuse Quotes #34700
#38. When I'm in London I do have the convenience of being close to St James Park which is also good for me because it gives me an excuse to get out and get some much needed exercise!

David Blunkett

Excuse Quotes #36716
#39. Men are linear creatures, led by their lusts. You only have to give them an excuse to act on what they already want to do.

Nancy Gideon

Excuse Quotes #37111
#40. I have a sewing machine that I adore, and I spend a lot of time sitting in front of it when I'm not working. And any excuse to paint or draw or do something artistic with my hands really gets me going. Definitely aspiring.

India De Beaufort

Excuse Quotes #37798
#41. Excuse our appearances. We are taking apart yesterday, to make way for tomorrow

Megan McCafferty

Excuse Quotes #38581
#42. Excuse me, Scopus," Beric said quietly, "I am perfectly ready to fight with this bragadocio, and challenge him to a contest; a few hard knocks will do neither of us any harm, therefore let us go into the school and have it out, It is much better so than to have perpetual quarrelling.

G.A. Henty

Excuse Quotes #40059
#43. Until Eric had explained that it was really just an excuse for a guy to rub his penis all over a girl and not get slapped in the face. After that,

Shayla Black

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#44. Iorek Byrnison: Can is not the same as must.
Lyra Silvertongue: But if you must and you can, then there's no excuse.

Philip Pullman

Excuse Quotes #41896
#45. I'm not going to lay off or quit just because I'm busy. If I used being busy as an excuse not to run, I'd never run again. I have only a few reasons to keep on running, and a truckload of them to quit.

Haruki Murakami

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#46. Having no money should not be an excuse to not learn.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

Excuse Quotes #43369
#47. Everybody's not going to understand where God has called you to go, but that is not an excuse for you not to go there. Then, when He puts you in certain places, it's a spiritual warfare to stay there.

CeCe Winans

Excuse Quotes #44177
#48. Yes, my enormous sexual appetite tends to scare men away. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to find my dinner date.

Stacia Kane

Excuse Quotes #44383
#49. And now, excuse me while I interrupt myself.

Murray Walker

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#50. By talking others out of their dreams, critical people excuse themselves for staying in their comfort zones.

John C. Maxwell

Excuse Quotes #46819
#51. So excuse me forgetting, but these things I do
You see I've forgotten, if they're green or they're blue
Anyway, the thing is, what I really mean
Yours are the sweetest eyes, I've ever seen.

Elton John

Excuse Quotes #49629
#52. Citizens are starting not to excuse political candidates who have web sites that do nothing but throw virtual confetti.

David Weinberger

Excuse Quotes #49950
#53. Some people feel threatened by the concept that abuse is a solvable problem, because if it is, there's no excuse for not solving it.

Lundy Bancroft

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#54. There are no excuses. There are no good reasons.

Eric Thomas

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#55. God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others.

Charles Caleb Colton

Excuse Quotes #52017
#56. Eragon! I never want to hear you use that excuse again, that because someone else has done
or would do
something means that you should too. It's lazy, repugnant, and indicative of an inferior mind. Am I clear?

Christopher Paolini

Excuse Quotes #54003
#57. Racist, sexist, and homophobic thoughts cannot, alas, be abolished by fiat but only by the time-honored methods of persuasion, education and exposure to the other guy's-or excuse me, woman's-point of view.

Barbara Ehrenreich

Excuse Quotes #54302
#58. So we must work at our profession and not make anybody else's idleness an excuse for our own. There is no lack of readers and listeners; it is for us to produce something worth being written and heard.

Pliny The Younger

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#59. Don't you dare take the lazy way. It's too easy to excuse yourself because of your ancestry. Don't let me catch you doing it! Now
look close at me so you will remember. Whatever you do, it will be you who do.

John Steinbeck

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#60. Excuse me, sir, you got dog poop on your shoe.

James Patterson

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#61. Usually I avoided college students, whom I considered brutal, wrapped up in themselves, particularly in their youth, in which they found material for drama or an excuse for their own boredom. I did not care for young people.

Francoise Sagan

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#62. Yet to give over one's honor for that reason was so easy, wasn't it? To excuse the fall of virtue by invoking all-powerful ka.

Stephen King

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#63. Uncalled for excuses are practical confessions.

Charles Simmons

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#64. The Bible is there to enable God's people to be equipped to do God's work in God's world, not to give them an excuse to sit back smugly, knowing they possess all God's truth

N. T. Wright

Excuse Quotes #58221
#65. A health to the nut-brown lass, With the hazel eyes: let it pass ... As much to the lively grey 'Tis as good i' th' night as day: ... She's a savour to the glass, And excuse to make it pass.

John Suckling

Excuse Quotes #62006
#66. We do not lack strength so much as the will to use it; and very often our imagining that things are impossible is nothing but an excuse of our own contriving, to reconcile ourselves to our own idleness.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Excuse Quotes #62602
#67. The fact that drilling won't solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all.

Sarah Palin

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#68. Got any excuses tonight Roy?

Antonio Tarver

Excuse Quotes #65149
#69. While I think you were a rotten father and are still a horrid excuse for a person, I appreciate your ability to mix revenge and charity.

Kate M. Colby

Excuse Quotes #65777
#70. When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it.

Lewis B. Smedes

Excuse Quotes #68403
#71. For once, I wished I wasn't so broken, so Rhian had a best friend who was strong and not afraid to love, to hold up as an example of what was possible. Instead, I was her excuse that she wasn't being irrational. I was her enabler.

Samantha Young

Excuse Quotes #70921
#72. You know the green grifters have no argument when they start raising the 'no blood for oil' cry on the blogs. Excuse me, if Obama's make-sure-your-tires-are-properly-inflated administration would simply allow more energy production here in the U.S., that wouldn't be a problem very long, would it?

Howie Carr

Excuse Quotes #74608
#73. I will admit that I just want an excuse to put all my favorite people in a room together.

Robin Sloan

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#74. Catching an STD doesn't excuse serial killing.

Kat Lowe

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#75. I just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics. Because I'm a fashion designer, it gives me a voice, which is really good.

Vivienne Westwood

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#76. When he [the slothful person] is pressed to be diligent, either in his worldly affairs or in the business of religion, this is his excuse (and a sorry excuse it is as bad as none).

Matthew Henry

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#77. The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.

Alexander Alekhine

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#78. will be boys' is what people say to excuse guys when they do something awful.

Aaron Hartzler

Excuse Quotes #82671
#79. What color are your panties?"
"Excuse me?"
"You heard me."
"Why?"
"Baby, if I'm going to take you into a room full of men wearing that dress, I'm damn well going to be the only one who knows the color of your panties.

Tessa Bailey

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#80. Pay attention, people! There's no excuse for making the same mistakes that others have made. If you do, it's your own fault and you should expect no sympathy, no compassion.

Donald Trump

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#81. Ever since the introduction of psychoanalysis there have been too many terms to excuse behavior and phrases that can be [used] to explain everything.

Sean Connery

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#82. Sometimes LIFE is rough and tough. That's still NO excuse for you to be.

Tanya Masse

Excuse Quotes #86127
#83. And your excuse?' I asked.
'I'm a sociopath; I don't have to be nice,' Nicky said.
I gave him a look.
'You're mad at him.I can feel it; which means I really don't have to be nice to him.'
'I thought you were friends.'
'What part of sociopath didn't you understand?' he asked.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Excuse Quotes #86724
#84. Often your 'fixes' are actually removing capabilities that you had, because they were 'too confusing to the user'. GNOME seems to be developed by interface Nazis, where consistently the excuse for not doing something is not 'it's too complicated to do', but 'it would confuse users'.

Linus Torvalds

Excuse Quotes #87562
#85. I could point out that it isn't always easy knowing who you are and what you want, because then you have no excuse for not trying to get it.

David Levithan

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#86. I've always felt that feminism was just an excuse for ugly women to march.

Larry Flynt

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#87. Tell the President to stand up to our enemies, not cower to them or make excuses for them!

Jim Gilmore

Excuse Quotes #90007
#88. Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.

Alfred Jarry

Excuse Quotes #90183
#89. I quirked a brow at him. "No kids for me. Would you really bring children into a world like this?"
Eyes alight with playfulness, he said, "No. It was just an excuse to get in your pants.

Kresley Cole

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#90. If I didn't feel that I was doing something or trying to do something for others, then I would have very little excuse for the life that I lead.

William T. Vollmann

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#91. And if that sounds like an excuse, sue me. Everybody else has.

Vincent H. O'Neil

Excuse Quotes #93706
#92. If I get an order to evacuate a Jew from his home, to expel him, me, personally, my conscience would not let me do it. I'll ask my commander to excuse me, but I won't publicly call on others to refuse an order. I personally can't ...

Naftali Bennett

Excuse Quotes #95207
#93. You will excuse my being so much overpowered. If I find him conversible, I shall be glad of his acquaintance; but if he is only a chattering coxcomb, he will not occupy much of my time or thoughts.

Jane Austen

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#94. We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.

Erica Jong

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#95. Excuse me, but what kinda black lady are you?" I smiled, looked at her, and said, "The kinda black lady that you wanna know.

Rebecca Carroll

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#96. In the end, photography for me is just an excuse to get to know the world.

Graciela Iturbide

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#97. Some people use their own hurt as an excuse for hurting others

Roland Merullo

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#98. I see a lot of people use the Paleo diet as an excuse to eat bacon for every meal. That's a bit much.

Chris Mohr

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#99. It takes a fictionalized or invented excursion to buy a pencil in the winter dusk of London as an excuse to explore darkness, wandering, invention, the annihilation of identity, the enormous adventure that transpires in the mind while the body travels a quotidian course.

Rebecca Solnit

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#100. It begins to go so fast," Fitch said. "What?" "Time. You cling to every second. Savor everything. Wish you'd lived all your days like this. Excuse me.

Blake Crouch

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