“Once you had a good excuse, you opened the door to bad excuses.”

“Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

“The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.”

Erica Jong (1942) Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic

“[…]you know what they say about messengers, right"?
Excuse me?"
Too much bad news will get you shot."[…]”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

“Excuse me Mr.
But isn't that your oil in the sea?
And the pollution in the air Mr.
Whose could that be?So excuse me Mr.
But I'm a mister too
And you're givin' Mr. a bad name,
Mr. like you.”

Ben Harper (1969) singer-songwriter and musician

“When you don’t choose, you excuse.”

James Altucher (1968) American hedge fund manager, entrepreneur, and author

“Elizabeth's voice had a door in it. When you opened that door you found another door, and that door opened yet another door. All the doors were nice and led out of her.”

Richard Brautigan (1935–1984) American novelist, poet, and short story writer

“Yea, Custance, better (they say) a bad excuse than none.”

Nicholas Udall Ralph Roister Doister

“You are not made of metaphors,
Not apologies, not excuses.”

Sarah Kay

“You didn’t know, but not knowing is no excuse.”

China Miéville book The Tain