Top 87 Quotes About Excused
#1. In decision after decision on the bench, Judge [Samuel] Alito has excused abusive actions by the authorities that intrude on the personal privacy and freedoms of average Americans.
Edward Kennedy
#2. This man accepted everything, excused everything, forgave everything, blessed everything, welcomed everything, and asked of Providence, of men, of justice, of society, of nature, of the world, one thing only - that Cosette love him!
Victor Hugo
#3. Beauty (was)a gift which, in the eyes of New York, justified every success, and excused a certain number of failings.
Edith Wharton
#4. Gratitude is a duty none can be excused from, because it is always at our own disposal.
Pierre Charron
#5. Like the majority of irreproachably virtuous women, wearying often of the monotony of a virtuous life, Dolly from a distance excused illicit love, and even envied it a little.
Leo Tolstoy
#6. Since Hetty wasn't even here yet, I excused myself to go to the bathroom where I promptly picked my kindle up again. Don't judge.
Penelope Ward
#7. A comic writer should of all others be the least excused for deviating from nature, since it may not be always so easy for a serious poet to meet with the great and the admirable; but life every where furnishes an accurate observer with the ridiculous.
Henry Fielding
#8. We know too much, and what might have been excused in other times can no longer stand up to reason. ... with that understanding comes moral responsibility.
Wayne Pacelle
#9. But as she continued and finished her tale, I could tell that her heart was elsewhere, and when she excused herself to go to bed, she left without saying good night. After that, the princesses in her stories were always beautiful. Always.
Kelly Barnhill
#10. Every good book should be entertaining. A good book will be more; it must not be less. Entertainment ... is like a qualifying examination. If a fiction can't provide that, we may be excused from inquiring into its higher qualities.
C.S. Lewis
#11. Evidently we look so much alike that your desire to make an incurable dent in my hat must be excused.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#12. The show originally started out as a ten hour mini-series. We shot two hours and then were excused for a while, for no apparent reason. Things went very quiet for a time and then a few months later we were called back and told that it was going to be a full season.
Gil Gerard
#13. Twenty-five years ago people could be excused for not knowing much, or doing much, about climate change. Today we have no excuse. No more can it be dismissed as science fiction; we are already feeling the effects.
Desmond Tutu
#14. Both of the twins exhibited a sort of prized Wisconsin Aryan-ness that excused them from blame for almost any caper. they looked liked the protagonists from a Disney movie but behaved like After School Specials.
Josh Kilmer-Purcell
#15. They had a wonderful romantic night together. In fact it was so wonderful that at one point Zeus excused himself, took his phone into the bathroom and texted Helios, the sun god: Bro, take a few days off. I need this night to last!
Rick Riordan
#16. ...confession means saying that somewhere in the mix was a choice, and the choice was made by us, and it does not need to be excused, explained, or even understood. The choice needs to be forgiven.
John Ortberg
#17. All religions accept that there is something called 'criminality.' And criminality cannot be excused by religious fervour.
Wole Soyinka
#18. You are excused from doing the work of constructing the fantasy. The ads do it for you. The ads, therefore, don't flatter your adult agency, or even ignore it - they supplant it.
David Foster Wallace
#19. Aedion yawned - the lousiest attempt at one Rowan had ever seen - and excused himself.
Sarah J. Maas
#20. A disciple can be forgiven if he does not have great mental ability. He can be forgiven also if he does not display outstanding physical prowess. But no disciple can be excused if he does not have zeal. If his heart is not aflame with a red-hot passion for the Savior, he stands condemned.
William MacDonald
#21. You are only excused for happiness and success if you generously agree to share them. But if one is to be happy, one should not worry too much about other people - which means there is no way out.
Happy and judged or absolved and miserable.
Albert Camus
#22. Shut up, Valdez." Frank gave him a bear hug. "And be careful." "Ribs," Leo squeaked. "Sorry." Annabeth and Percy wished them good luck. Then Percy excused himself to go throw up.
Rick Riordan
#23. Male leaders are celebrated for their successes, while their excesses are typically excused as the necessary and expected price of masculine ambition.
Kara Cooney
#24. In many a poetic work, one gets here and there, instead of representation merely a title indicating that this or that was supposedto be represented here, that the artist has been prevented from doing it and most humbly asks to be kindly excused.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
#25. No form of violence can ever be excused in a society that wishes to call itself decent
Nelson Mandela
#26. A group of Cuban Americans denounced the Castro government as a fascist regime that monitors and scrutinized its citizens' everyday existence. And then they excused themselves to go watch Big Brother.
Bill Maher
#27. The Nuremberg Trial of the German war criminals was tacitly based on the recognition of the principle: criminal actions cannot be excused if committed on government orders; conscience supersedes the authority of the law of the state.
Albert Einstein
#28. I know certain actors are totally screwed up on drugs, yet it gets covered up. Why wasn't I excused for 'exhaustion' or 'the flu'?
Drew Barrymore
#30. Everyone had taken their places, when I excused myself to visit the bathroom, and there, in the toilet, was the absolute biggest turd I have ever seen in my life - no toilet paper or anything, just this long and coiled specimen, as thick as a burrito.
David Sedaris
#31. I hope that I may be excused for entering on these personal details, as I give them to show that I have not been hasty in coming to a decision.
Charles Darwin
#32. After a while, many of the whites asked to be excused before Evelyn even asked them any questions. Most of them preferred to be excused rather than have their feelings toward Black people, Black militants, and Black Panthers questioned and explored.
Assata Shakur
#33. He always ran away from the battle with himself. Even in his own heart's privacy, he excused himself, saying, If she hadn't said so-and-so, it would never have happened.
D.H. Lawrence
#34. No day passes without a Democratic politician, a left-wing commentator, or, if I may be excused a redundancy, a left-wing academic labeling Republicans and conservatives racist.
Dennis Prager
#35. No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.
A.A. Milne
#36. It's a curious thing in American life that the most abject nonsense will be excused if the utterer can claim the sanction of religion. A country which forbids an established church by law is prey to any denomination. The best that can be said is that this is pluralism of a kind.
Christopher Hitchens
#37. But surely Adam cannot be excused; Her fault though great, yet he was most to blame; What weakness offered, strength might have refused, Being lord of all, the greater was the shame.
Emilia Lanier
#38. The writer cannot expect to be excused from the task of re-education and re-generation that must be done. In fact, he should march right in front.
Chinua Achebe
#39. I did not see any major issues other than the jury substitutions. I can't know whether there's a problem there, until I read the transcript from the in-chambers conference, when those jurors were excused.
Catherine Crier
#40. We could talk, act, and dress funny. We were excused for socially inappropriate behavior: 'Oh, he's a programmer'. It was all because we knew this technology stuff that other people found completely mystifying.
Kent Beck
#41. I cannot believe that everything must be subordinated to a single end. There are means which cannot be excused.
Albert Camus
#43. But surely she could be excused just a tiny touch of nasty in the privacy of her own head?
Terry Pratchett
#44. The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
Moliere
#45. A foreigner could be excused for thinking that to know set is to know English.
Bill Bryson
#46. If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character.
Taryn Manning
#47. They wordlessly excused each other for not loving each other as much as they had planned to. There were empty rooms in the house where they had meant to put their love, and they worked together to fill these rooms with midcentury modern furniture. ("Birthmark").
Miranda July
#48. Its author can be excused of dishonesty only on the grounds that before deceiving others he has taken great pains to deceive him-self'.
Richard Dawkins
#49. An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
#50. When an Englishman has professed his belief in the supremacy of Shakespeare amongst all poets, he feels himself excused from the general study of literature. He also feels himself excused from the particular study of Shakespeare.
Aubrey Beardsley
#51. the only failure that cannot be excused is the failure to act on an injustice or to right a wrong. Those are the failures history shuns because the people who stand by and allow evil to occur are very nearly as bad as the evil-doers themselves." Archer
April White
#52. Less the same in her own home, which she'd had no chance to clean. If neither of these qualified in Hester's mind as valid church-excused emergencies, Dellarobia
Barbara Kingsolver
#53. I am feeling easy now, and you will well understand that after undergoing pain this ease is opening paradise. Invalids must be excused for being eloquent about themselves.
George Eliot
#54. We are all busy. It's easy to find excuses for not reaching out to others, but I imagine they will sound as hollow to our Heavenly Father as the elementary school boy who gave his teacher a note asking that he be excused from school March 30th through the 34th.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#55. The wrongful arrest of tens of thousands of British Muslims after the September 11 attacks can be explained by the very poor intelligence the police had, and, just possibly, excused by the fact that a terrorist action in Britain linked to British Muslims would have been hugely damaging.
Geoff Mulgan
#56. The cruelty intrinsic to the workhouse system was excused by the need to discourage idleness, much as the malice intrinsic to the mental hospital system has been excused by the need to provide treatment.
Thomas Szasz
#57. It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
Ben Jonson
#58. Domestic violence is frequently excused when alcohol and other substances are involved.
Asa Don Brown
#59. You know if you pick up a beach read, you're excused from the problems in your own life and safe in a world with conflicts you understand, and you know you will get a happy ending.
Nancy Thayer
#60. There is a difference between admitting and confessing. Admitting involves softening, making excuses for things that cannot be excused; confessing just names the crimes at its full severity.
Veronica Roth
#61. We are so afraid of the idea of having to die ... that we always try to find excuses for the dead, as if we were asking beforehand to be excused when it is our turn ...
Jose Saramago
#62. lips, excused from their color, had formed words relieved of their sound.
Chris Cleave
#63. But if, on the other hand, we should be justified in rejecting it, if there testified on oath, then, supposing our rules of evidence to be sound, we may be excused if we hesitate elsewhere to give it credence.
Simon Greenleaf
#64. I am not much of a hand at love songs, you see I mingle metaphysics with even this, but perhaps in this age of Philosophy that may be excused.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#65. My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused from saving universes.
Douglas Adams
#66. A Gorean slave girl in the presence of a free man or woman always kneels, unless excused from doing so.
John Norman
#67. Personally I don't endorse the notion of mortality. It's fine for other folk, but I disapprove of the concept for me and my loved ones. Seems unfair that we're not allowed to vote on the matter and not one of us is excused. Who made up that rule? - Kinsey Millhone
Sue Grafton
#68. It's my custom to say something flattering to begin with so I shall be excused if I put my foot in it later on.
Prince Philip
#69. May I be excused, or would you like my assistance toweling off?" Ethan asked. "My grandmother is expecting me, and she hates when I'm late, although I'm willing to risk the wrath if you'd like to continue this conversation.
Barbra Annino
#70. The first time they'd met, in this very pub, he'd hit on her using so little finesse, she'd been forced to ask if he was kidding. Granted, they'd both had a few too many drinks that night, but nothing excused the line, "I'm not drunk, I'm just intoxicated by you." Nothing.
Tessa Bailey
#71. After repeating almost everything I said, I excused my
accent and told them that I knew I spoke like I had plums in my mouth.
I then had to explain that was a British expression, as their faces read as
though I was saying I'd had their brother-in-law's balls on my tongue.
Greg Hogben
#72. Ralon didn't make anyone else put his tack away?" Alex wanted to know. "You didn't see anything strange?"
Alanna didn't look up. "No." It wasn't strange , she excused her lie mentally. Ralon does things like that all the time.
Tamora Pierce
#73. I must be out of it, but I don't know any good journalists who have excused Clinton's problems.
Ben Bradlee
#74. I think poor poetry writing skills are excused when you're simply trying to flush out emotions.
Katie Kiesler
#75. We may be excused for not always being bright, but we are not excused for not being gracious, yielding and considerate.
Saint Francis De Sales
#76. A Catholic may sin and sin as badly as anyone else, but no genuine Catholic ever denies he is a sinner. A Catholic wants his sins forgiven - not excused or sublimated.
Fulton J. Sheen
#77. There are means that cannot be excused. And I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice. I don't want just any greatness for it, particularly a greatness born of blood and falsehood. I want to keep it alive by keeping justice alive.
Albert Camus
#78. If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.
Theodor Adorno
#80. God doesn't do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, "Can I be excused the Crucifixion?" No!
Alan Bennett
#81. Man may be excused for feeling some pride at having risen, though not through his own exertions, to the very summit of the organic scale; and the fact of his having thus risen, instead of having been aboriginally placed there, may give him hopes for a still higher destiny in the distant future.
Charles Darwin
#83. We've excused all houses up to $750,000 from our property-purchase tax. We have more to do. There are other measures we intend to take to try and address housing affordability. There are things we can do. There are limits to it and we can't do it by ourselves.
Christy Clark
#84. There can be no faith in government if our highest offices are excused from scrutiny - they should be setting the example of transparency.
Edward Snowden
#85. There is no doubt about it that it is more difficult for a woman to follow a career than for a man. Through the centuries his time has been considered more valuable, and he has consequently been excused from wrestling with many of 'life's minor damnabilities.
Alice Hegan Rice
#86. The commentator may be excused for repeating what he has stressed in his own books and lectures, namely that "offensive" is frequently but a synonym for "unusual;" and a great work of art is of course always original, and thus by its very nature should come more or less as a shocking surprise.
Vladimir Nabokov
#87. Actors are excused from a lot of things, and we get away with a lot ... I find it equally interesting and exciting as it is disgusting and bizarre.
Joel Edgerton
