Top 81 Her Alibi Quotes
#1. The way I was brought up 'he needed killing' is an airtight alibi.
Lisa Kleypas
#2. Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.
Eric Hoffer
#3. It is necessary to fall in love ... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.
Albert Camus
#4. All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.
Will Rogers
#5. Faithful is the Lord, who has made himself our debtor, not by receiving any thing from us, but by promising us all things, (August. in Ps. 32, 109, et alibi).
John Calvin
#6. We must have one love, one great love in our life, since it gives us an alibi for all the moments when we are filled with despair.
Albert Camus
#7. The artistic temperament is too often only an alibi for lack of responsibility ...
Edmund Crispin
#9. Honesty whispers, Don't get pricked by the thorns of lie.
Angelica Hopes
#11. There are whole years for which I hope I'll never be cross-examined, for I could not give an alibi.
Mignon McLaughlin
#12. If you pick up a golfer and hold it close to your ear, like a conch shell, and listen, you will hear an alibi.
Fred Beck
#14. You met a guy in an alley, and he kissed you?
Is he still alive, or do I need to provide you with an alibi?
I.D. Locke
#15. If fucking were graceful,desire an alibi.
Rita Dove
#16. You know, at parties, people always ask, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' Well, I don't have an alibi!
Emo Philips
#17. I suppose we'll never know what really happened in that room, though he did tell police, "I did it because I'm a dirty dog." This is not a very convincing alibi. He may as well have said, "I got 99 problems, but a bitch ain't one.
Chuck Klosterman
#18. Alcohol.
It can give the courage to talk dirty and the permission to go home with the bartender.
It's the alibi. The cover story.
It wasn't really you - you were possessed by Captain Morgan and the Grey Goose.
Unfortunately, I have a very high tolerance for alcohol.
Sucks to be me.
Emma Chase
#19. That's why it's good to have had love in your life after all, to have had an unhappy passion - it gives you an alibi from the great despairs we all suffer from.
Albert Camus
#20. 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.
Mark Batterson
#21. Don't speak if you don't have to about trivia. The time for joking comes because of the trust, and you have to earn the trust. So, I don't alibi for anything, and I'll take the heat. That's the other thing. Don't let them take the heat. We take the heat.
Phil Ramone
#23. None of us are pretty, but our ugly has an alibi.
Andrea Gibson
#24. Her eyes, however, were every bit as hard and shiny as the varnish on Dad's desk.
"Sophie, there you are! Where have you been the past few days? We've hardly seen you."
"A-around?" I stuttered, inwardly cringing. Oh,that was an awesome alibi.
Rachel Hawkins
#26. If you have the woman you love, what more do you need? Well, besides an alibi for the time of her husband's murder.
Dark Jar Tin Zoo
#28. A man's alibi is the child of his own imagination. It is human nature to defend one's own brain-child.
Napoleon Hill
#29. The test of policy is how it ends, not how it begins. Foreign policy is the art of establishing priorities. Demonization is not a policy; it is an alibi for the absence of one. The test is not absolute satisfaction but balanced dissatisfaction.
Henry A. Kissinger
#30. 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.
Sue Grafton
#31. Where's your sense of adventure? It died under mysterious circumstances. My sense of self-preservation found the body, but assures me it has an airtight alibi. -Captain Tagon & Captain Andreyasn
Howard Tayler
#32. The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.
Albert Camus
#33. A community is an alibi for the failure of individual love.
Leonard Cohen
#34. 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.
Christy Mathewson
#35. We lie to ourselves in order that we may still have the excuse of ignorance, the alibi of stupidity and incomprehension, possessing which we can continue with a good conscience to commit and tolerate the most monstrous crimes.
Aldous Huxley
#36. Conscription is an impediment to achieving the forces Australia needs. It is an alibi for failing to give proper conditions to regular soldiers. We will abolish conscription forthwith. By abolishing it, Australia will achieve a better army, a better-paid army - and a better, united society.
Gough Whitlam
#38. It would be a real failure if agreeing that it [abortion] was not an electoral issue provided an alibi for taking it seriously as a public issue.
Rowan Williams
#39. Her own mother had died when Anna was twelve and since then father and daughter had faced the world like a pair of nineteenth-century adventurers, a riverboat gambler, say, and his alibi girl.
John Banville
#40. Let me deal with him. If he turns up dead in the river you'll know to keep your mouth shut and provide me an alibi.
Sally Thorne
#42. Never ask a man where's he's been. If he's out on legitimate business, he doesn't need an alibi. And, girls, if he has been out on illegitimate business, it's your own fault.
Mae West
#43. I didn't have a heart until I meet you.
That smile is killin me too.
I can't look away.
Can I always stay?
I can't look away.
I need to stay.
I didn't have a heart until I meet you.
Jenni James
#44. Looking up is the biggest alibi ever invented to explain a terrible shot. By the time you look up, you've already made the mistake.
Harvey Penick
#45. Even without the mushroom cloud
still I would have hated
Listen
I would have done the same things
even if there were no death
I will not be held like a drunkard
under the cold tap of facts
I refuse the universal alibi
Leonard Cohen
#46. Hey, Kami. I was wondering if I could get a dance with the best-looking girl in the room."
"Sure," Kami said. "Go ask Angela. Take your life in your hands. I'll miss you and all, but I'm going to give her an alibi for the murder, because that's what best friends do.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#47. The public wouldn't like the perfect umpire in every game. It would kill off baseball's greatest alibi - 'We was robbed.'
Billy Evans
#48. Unfortunately, love is more often an alibi than a reason.
Luigina Sgarro
#49. They were only to glad to come, ... as an alibi to test their charms ... but once they'd made it into the house their hearts where in their boots because they knew enough to see that here Madame Verona was still living off the interest.
Dimitri Verhulst
#50. I was brought up among the sort of self-important women who had a husband as one has an alibi.
Anita Brookner
#51. Well, demonization itself can help ... to provide an alibi. You succumb to the Devil incarnate, and as a result you're not guilty yourself.
Hannah Arendt
#53. I got an alibi, just in case you think I did it. Tighter than a crab's ass, and that is air tight.
James Ellroy
#54. As I was to learn, reproductive urges will serve as an alibi for just about anything.
Nell Zink
#55. God is Dipa's alibi. Why can't criminals be frank about what they're up to? All this disgusting idealistic hogwash - it makes one vomit.
Aldous Huxley
#56. He was like this when I got here?' That's you alibi?
Karen Chance
#57. Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else.
Then let's be quiet together.
Leonard Cohen
#58. The true life is absent.' But we are in the world. Metaphysics arises and is maintained in this alibi.
Emmanuel Levinas
#59. The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants.
Albert Camus
#60. 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.
J.D. Robb
#61. An alibi is one alliterative consonant short of being a magic carpet
Josh Stern
#62. It's the notion that there is no perfection - that this is a broken world and we live with broken hearts and broken lives but still that is no alibi for anything. On the contrary, you have to stand up and say hallelujah under those circumstances.
Leonard Cohen
#63. In the right circumstances, I'm a big fan of eating alone. Often, on a Sunday evening, I go to a yoga class whose charm is largely that it gives me an alibi to avoid cooking family supper for once. I return to have boiled eggs and soldiers in silence with a book. Bliss.
Bee Wilson
#64. But we can't alibi all our ills by just knocking the old banker. First he loaned the money, then the people all at once wanted it back, and he didn't have it. Now he's got it again, and is afraid to loan it, so the poor devil don't know what to do.
Will Rogers
#65. 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)
Sandra Brown
#66. When people say they're too busy, ask them If they'll have time to die, and see If dead's gonna give a damn.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#67. Think and then act. Never act and then alibi.
Henry Iba
#69. The "thesis neurosis" has begun: the student abandons the thesis, returns to it, feels unfulfilled, loses focus, and uses his thesis as an alibi to avoid other challenges in his life that he is too cowardly to address. This student will never graduate.
Umberto Eco
#70. The obstacle became his alibi for weakness.
Anais Nin
#71. Get a grip, Haskell. Find a target, blast it, cook up an alibi. What's complicated about that?
James A. Hetley
#72. An alibi is a reason with a bad reputation.
Doug Larson
#73. I thought it was her wicked stepmother who poisoned her ... '
' ... Turned out the wicked stepmother had an alibi.'
' ... Seems she was off poisoning someone else at the time. Chance in a million, really. It was just bad luck.
John Connolly
#74. What is a photograph? For me, a fragment of quick-silver, a lucid dream, a scribbled note from the subconscious to be deciphered, perhaps, over years. It is a monologue trying to become a conversation, an offering, an alibi, a salute.
Eva Rubinstein
#75. Shit. Is this a good idea?
I'm a lawyer for Christ's sake.
I look at Lorelai and she looks so happy that I don't care anymore.
Screw it! If she wants to vandalise this prick's car, I'm game.
I can come up with an alibi for us both later ...
Joanne McClean
#76. Except for cases that clearly involve a homicidal maniac, the police like to believe murders are committed by those we know and love, and most of the time they're right - a chilling thought when you sit down to dinner with a family of five. All those potential killers passing their plates.
Sue Grafton
#77. Some writers aren't writers, they are mere escapees' and refugees' on an exile from the jungle of thoughts.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#78. The biggest pests are the people who use altruism as an alibi. What they passionately wish is to make themselves important.
Isabel Paterson
#79. You must have a love, a great love, to ensure an alibi at unjustified despairs that conquer all of us
Albert Camus
#80. What was the value, really, of an alibi between lovers, friends, or family members? Idea for greeting card: 'Will You Be My Alibi?
Jincy Willett
#81. No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
Napoleon Hill
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