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Excuse Quotes - Page 4

In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough.

C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

An excuse is a lie guarded.

Jonathan Swift (1850). “The works of Jonathan Swift: containing interesting and valuable papers, not hitherto published ; with a memoir of the author”, p.837

Think not the bigotry of another is any excuse for your own.

John Wesley, John Emory (1835). “The Works of the Late Reverend John Wesley, A.M.: From the Latest London Edition with the Last Corrections of the Author, Comprehending Also Numerous Translations, Notes, and an Original Preface, Etc”, p.346

Ideological differences are no excuse for rudeness.

Judith Martin (1982). “Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior”, Scribner

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.

William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.330

We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness.

Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke”, p.149