Alibi Quotes

“If you have the woman you love, what more do you need? Well, besides an alibi for the time of her husband’s murder.
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― Dark Jar Tin Zoo, Love Quotes for the Ages. Specifically Ages 19-91.

“It is necessary to fall in love – the better to provide an alibi for all the despair we are going to feel anyway.”
― Albert Camus

“Except for cases that clearly involve a homicidal maniac, the police like to believe murders are committed by those we know and love, and most of the time they're right - a chilling thought when you sit down to dinner with a family of five. All those potential killers passing their plates.”
― Sue Grafton, A Is for Alibi

“Where's your sense of adventure?

It died under mysterious circumstances. My sense of self-preservation found the body, but assures me it has an airtight alibi.
-Captain Tagon & Captain Andreyasn”
― Howard Tayler, Resident Mad Scientist

“Honesty whispers, "Don't get pricked by the thorns of lie.”
― Angelica Hopes

“Irony serves as an alibi for a fetish.”
― Nathaniel Wing, The Limits of Narrative: Essays on Baudelaire, Flaubert, Rimbaud and Mallarme

“The world turned and flung me.”
― David Iserson, Firecracker

“The way I was brought up ‘he needed killing’ is an airtight alibi.”
― Lisa Kleypas

“Habitual excuses for inactivity indicates little or no interest in what one ought to have done.”
― Itohan Eghide, The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes

“When people say they're too busy, ask them If they'll have time to die, and see If dead's gonna give a damn.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Now, if the writers of these four books [Gospels] had gone into a court of justice to prove an alibi, (for it is of the nature of an alibi that is here attempted to be proved, namely, the absence of a dead body by supernatural means,) and had they given their evidence in the same contradictory manner as it is here given, they would have been in danger of having their ears cropt for perjury, and would have justly deserved it. Yet this is the evidence, and these are the books, that have been imposed upon the world as being given by divine inspiration, and as the unchangeable word of God.”
― Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason

“Some writers aren't writers, they are mere escapees' and refugees' on an exile from the jungle of thoughts.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“An alibi is one alliterative consonant short of being a magic carpet”
― Josh Stern, And That’s Why I’m Single

“Don't ever accuse anyone of being full of pride, undignified and unprofessional when simply they are wise to move away from dishonest schemers.
Dishonesty comprise too of layers of lies simply casted for impressive appearances. There are times too that corrupt hearts have their own confused, modified, self-affirming, pro-self interest business inclined definitions of "professionalism, integrity, dignity and pride.”
― Angelica Hopes

“What was the value, really, of an alibi between lovers, friends, or family members? Idea for greeting card: ‘Will You Be My Alibi?”
― Jincy Willet, The Writing Class

“An alibi is only as good as its details.”
― Kenneth Eade, Paladine

“Unfortunately, love is more often an alibi than a reason.”
― Luigina Sgarro

“Воно [алібі] є складовою, ба більше – основною частиною злочинного діяння. Візьміть хоча б таку сферу як політика. Коли, наприклад, оголошується війна, завжди є в запасі алібі. Не кажучи вже про державні перевороти. Винен завжди той, на кого напали. У того, хто напав, завжди є алібі.”
― Bertolt Brecht, Копійчаний роман. Матінка кураж та її діти. Кавказьке крейдяне коло

“And then the other guy will look really sheepish, and mumble that, okay, maybe he tried to make a run for it, and maybe he took a drunken swing at the arresting officer, and maybe he made a couple of off-color remarks about law-enforcement professionals, and maybe he’s been hiding from the cops ever since an incident a few years back involving a bleeding hooker, nine pounds of cocaine, and a soiled image of Tipper Gore.”
― Phillip Andrew Bennett Low, Indecision Now! A Libertarian Rage

“If you're going to ask me to provide myself with three nice little alibis," said Hersey, "you may as well know straight away that I can't do it. I seem to remember reading somewhere that that makes me innocent and I'm sure I hope it's true"

"It's in the best tradition of detective fiction, I understand," said Allyen with a smile.”
― Ngaio Marsh, Death and the Dancing Footman

“Here's some advice: If you ever have to kill someone, do it alone. No buddy watching your back, no friend with the getaway car, no one swearing you were with them.”
― Vincent H. O'Neil, Crime Capsules: Tales of Death, Desire, and Deception

“Succede che, a un certo punto, quel brivido che ci scuote non lo vogliamo più sentire e lo scambiamo per uno spiffero di freddo che disturba il nostro torpore, le nostre abitudini.
Allora ci copriamo, ci infagottiamo di alibi.
I nostri passi si fanno prevedibili, pesanti, come nella neve d'inverno, fino a che smettiamo di camminare.
"Si tira avanti", preferiamo rispondere, e non ci accorgiamo che è indietro che stiamo andando.
Iniziamo a sbuffare dei "lunedì della vita", degli imprevisti, delle continue prime volte, smettiamo di essere curiosi, non vogliamo nulla di nuovo - "basta, grazie, sono a posto così" -, vogliamo che ogni giorno sia "domenica", sprofondati nella tranquillità del nostro piccolo divano e delle nostre piccole certezze.
Scappiamo dall'istinto di vivere e reclamiamo la "vacanza" della vita - "vacanza" che però significa "mancanza, assenza".
Siamo tutti così impegnati nello sforzo inane di respingere quell'istinto così umano di partire.
E alla sera siamo sempre più stanchi, svuotati.”
― Andrea Marcolongo, La misura eroica: Il mito degli Argonauti e il coraggio che spinge gli uomini ad amare

“Mrs Touchet had a theory. England was not a real place at all. England was an elaborate alibi. Nothing real happened in England. Only dinner parties and boarding schools and bankruptcies. Everything else, everything the English really did and really wanted, everything they desired and took and used and discarded – all of that they did elsewhere.”
― Zadie Smith, The Fraud

“He's got an alibi. People with alibis in the first half of the show are always suspicious.”
― T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

“He had no alibi for the night of November 8, 1974, and he argued, "If I cannot remember precisely what occurred on a date which is now eighteen and one-half months prior to my arrest for kidnapping, it is because my memory does not improve with time. It is safe to say what I was not doing, however. I was not having heart surgery, nor was I taking ballet lessons, nor was I in Mexico, no was I abducting a complete stranger at gunpoint. There are just some things a person does not forget and just some things a person is not inclined to do under any circumstances.”
― Ann Rule, The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story