79 Alibi Quotes

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Famous Alibi Quotes

I'm absolutely, 100 percent, not guilty. — O. J. Simpson

The innocent is the person who explains nothing. — Albert Camus

Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative. — W. S. Gilbert

I will prove my innocence, ... I guarantee the Filipino people that I will be vindicated because the truth is on my side. — Joseph Estrada

The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth. — Alan Dershowitz

An excuse is a skin of a reason stuffed with a lie. — Billy Sunday

I am not guilty, I am innocent. — Saddam Hussein

The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse. — Benjamin Franklin

If you don't want to do something, one excuse is as good as another. - Yiddish Proverbs

If you don't want to do something, one excuse is as good as another. — Yiddish Proverbs

The sinister thing about excuses is they're... valid. — Tom Bilyeu

Innocence has a single voice that can only say over and over again, "I didn't do it." Guilt has a thousand voices, all of them lies. — Leonard Peltier

Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse. — Thomas Szasz

He who does evil, is never short of an excuse. — Italian Proverbs

Guard yourself against accusations, even if they are false; for the multitude are ignorant of the truth and look only to reputation. — Isocrates

Any excuse will serve a tyrant. — Aesop

Short Alibi Quotes

  • All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance. — Will Rogers
  • You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. — Henry Ford
  • The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants. — Albert Camus
  • Think and then act. Never act and then alibi. — Henry Iba
  • Success requires no explanations. Failure permits no alibis. — Napoleon Hill
  • A sports expert is the guy who writes the best alibis for being wrong — Jimmy Cannon
  • No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility. — Napoleon Hill
  • 'Home Alone' was a movie, not an alibi. — Jerry Orbach
  • There are whole years for which I hope I'll never be cross-examined, for I could not give an alibi. — Mignon McLaughlin
  • Some persons' letters seem almost framed to afford a series of alibis for their personality. — Vernon Lee

Too Much Alike Quotes

You can spend too much time wondering which of identical twins is the more alike. — Robert Breault

Women of the world today dress alike. They are like so many loaves of bread. To be beautiful one must be unhurried. Personality is needed. There is too much sameness. The world seems only to have a desire for more of this sameness. To be different is to be alone. — Luisa Casati

Have compassion for all beings, rich and poor alike; each has their suffering. Some suffer too much, others too little. — Buddha

A white person listens to my act and he laughs and he thinks, 'Yeah, that's the way I see it too.' Okay. He's white. I'm Negro. And we both see things the same way. That must mean that we are alike..... So I figure I'm doing as much for good race relations as the next guy. — Bill Cosby

I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror. — Marilyn Monroe

I think we're all kind of alike when you do your first film. You have great hopes, but you don't hope too much. — Chad Stahelski

Economists are said to disagree too much but in ways that are too much alike: If eight sleep in the same bed, you can be sure that, like Eskimos, when they turn over, they'll all turn over together. — Paul Samuelson

{Mrs. March to Jo} You are too much alike and too fond of freedom, not to mention hot tempers and strong wills, to get on happily together, in a relation which needs infinite patience and forbearance, as well as love. — Louisa May Alcott

And that's where the whole trouble is. We're too much alike to understand each other because we don't even understand our own selves. — Betty Smith

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More Alibi Quotes

A clean, hard-fought wrestling match is the most honest of athletic contests. There is no technological interventions, no teammates to blame, no panel of judges to bias the score. In wrestling, you compete or you quit. No alibis. I like that — Dan Gable

It's the notion that there is no perfection - that there is a broken world and we live with broken hearts and broken lives but still there is no alibi for anything. On the contrary, you have to stand up and say hallelujah under those circumstances. — Leonard Cohen

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

You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars. — Henry Ford

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

We are living in the era of premeditation and the perfect crime. Our criminals are no longer helpless children who could plead love as their excuse. On the contrary, they are adults and the have the perfect alibi: philosophy, which can be used for any purpose - even for transforming murderers into judges. — Albert Camus

The biggest pests are the people who use altruism as an alibi. What they passionately wish is to make themselves important. — Isabel Paterson

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

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

Handicaps can be converted into stepping stones on which one may climb toward some worthy goal, unless they are accepted as obstacles, and used as alibis. — Napoleon Hill

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

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

Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise. — Eric Hoffer

Optimism has always seemed to me the cunning alibi of egoists, anxious to cover up their state of chronic self-satisfaction. They are optimists in order to avoid pitying other men and their misfortune. ~~ Yet pity is a vexed question. — Georges Bernanos

Quart of whiskey a day for months working hard on a long poem. Wife hiding bottles, myself hiding bottles. Murderous and suicidal. Many hospitalizations, many alibis. — James Taylor

Both gangs have been bad sports, so see if at least one can't redeem themselves by offering no alibis, but cooperate with the winner, for no matter which one it is the poor fellow is going to need it. — Will Rogers

For the West, the demonization of Vladimir Putin is not a policy; it is an alibi for the absence of one. Putin is a serious strategist – on the premises of Russian history. Understanding US values and psychology are not his strong suits. Nor has understanding Russian history and psychology been a strong point among US policymakers.’ — Henry A. Kissinger

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

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

You must have a love, a great love, to ensure an alibi at unjustified despairs that conquer all of us — Albert Camus

An alibi is a reason with a bad reputation. — Doug Larson

No innocent person ever has an alibi. — Agatha Christie

You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars. With it, there is accomplishment. Without it there are only alibis. — Henry Ford

People always ask me, "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?" Well, I don't have an alibi. — Emo Philips

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

A community is an alibi for the failure of individual love. — Leonard Cohen

The men who miss success have two general alibis: 'I'm not a genius' is one; and the other, 'There aren't the opportunities today there used to be'. — Charles M. Schwab

There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. — Eric Hoffer

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

A loser is someone who makes excuses and alibis and blames everyone else for their losses and failures. — Dick Vitale

this is no dream just my oily life where the people are alibis and the street is unfindable for an entire lifetime. — Anne Sexton

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

When you're counting alibis and not apples, one plus one equals none. — Margaret Millar

All autobiographies are alibi-ographies. — Clare Boothe Luce

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

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