“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”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“When you don’t choose, you excuse.”

“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.”

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

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

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