Alibi Quotes

People always ask me, "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?" Well, I don't have an alibi. (Emo Philips)
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility. View quote
Napoleon Hill
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. View quote
Georges Bernanos
'Home Alone' was a movie, not an alibi. View quote
Jerry Orbach
Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else." Then let's be quiet together. View quote
Leonard Cohen
To say that his conscience was clear would be inaccurate, for he did not have a conscience, but he had what was much better, an alibi... View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
The vast majority of the members of all religions, I believe and would argue, don't want to kill anybody. They want to love and care for their families, find decent work that sustains life and comfort, live in peace and get along with their neighbors. It is a deviant streak in some humans, I suspect, that drives them toward self-righteous violence, and uses religion as a convenient alibi... I am trying as hard as I can to imagine the audience for this movie. Every time I make any progress, it scares me. View quote
Roger Ebert
I have no intention of arguing about the Holocaust. But, does it not stand to reason that some victorious countries of World War II intended to create an alibi on the basis of which they could continue keeping the defeated nations of World War II indebted to them. Their purpose has been to weaken their morale and their inspiration in order to obstruct their progress and power. In addition to the people of Germany, the peoples of the Middle East have also borne the brunt of the Holocaust. By raising the necessity of settling the survivors of the Holocaust in the land of Palestine, they have created a permanent threat in the Middle East in order to rob the people of the region of the opportunities to achieve progress. View quote
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants. View quote
Albert Camus
This is not justice; never could this be justice, the verdict was ordained long ago. Its function is not to determine questions such as guilt or innocence, or truth or falsehood. It is a public relations exercise, designed to provide the government with an alibi for posterity. It is a show of wasteful vengeance; a theatrical warning to people of conscience. View quote
Julian Assange
He always has an alibi, and one or two to spare: At whatever time the deed took place- Macavity wasn't there. (T. S. Eliot)
When the Judgment Day comes civilization will have an alibi, "I never took a human life, I only sold the fellow the gun to take it with." View quote
Will Rogers
All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance. View quote
Will Rogers
There are many who find a good alibi far more attractive than an achievement. View quote
Eric Hoffer
There are whole years for which I hope I'll never be cross-examined, for I could not give an alibi. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
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. View quote
John Connolly
An alibi is a reason with a bad reputation. View quote
Doug Larson
He turned again to Bunting, saw his troubled countenance, the beads of sweat dancing on his upper lip. "And Bunting..." "Yes?" "Forget the alibi. The Vigils don't provide alibis," Archie said. The words final, like a trapdoor slamming shut. View quote
Robert Cormier
The public wouldn't like the perfect umpire in every game. It would kill off baseball's greatest alibi - 'We was robbed.' View quote
Billy Evans
A community is an alibi for the failure of individual love. View quote
Leonard Cohen
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)
The obstacle became his alibi for weakness. View quote
Anaïs Nin
I was brought up among the sort of self-important women who had a husband as one has an alibi. View quote
Anita Brookner
It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway. View quote
Albert Camus
The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience. View quote
Albert Camus