“Pardon me for loitering in front of an orchestra.”

“Pardon me I've got nothing to say.”

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian

“Pardon me, Highness, a women waits whithout."
"Whithout what?”

Jonathan Stroud book Ptolemy's Gate

“I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.”

Larry Wall (1954) American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl

“She [Clinton] walks in front of me, she walks in front of me, you know. And when she walked in front of me, believe me I wasn't impressed.”

Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America

“Don’t come before the orchestra is you have not mastered the score; don’t practise or learn the score ‘on the orchestra”

Pierre Monteux (1875–1964) French conductor

“Four strings across the bridge,
Ready to carry me over,
Over the quavers, drunk in the bars,
Out of the realm of the orchestra…”

Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer

“Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

“The guitar is a miniature orchestra in itself.”

Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770–1827) German Romantic composer

“O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!”

William Shakespeare Julius Caesar