To be wicked is never excusable, but there is some merit in knowing that you are; the most irreparable of vices is to do evil from stupidity.
— Charles Baudelaire
We have few faults which are not far more excusable than the means we adopt to hide them.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Hatred, however apparently justifiable, excusable or inevitable, always damages the hater.
— Dervla Murphy
A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable. — Robert Fripp
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[A pacifist is] the last and least excusable on the list of the enemies of society. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The greatest part of our faults are more excusable than the methods that are commonly taken to conceal them. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable. — G.K. Chesterton
What happened to you was done out of a fear of extinction, and while that doesn't make it excusable, it at least makes it understandable. — Dan Wells
Not seeing a tsunami or an economic event coming is excusable; building something fragile to them is not. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Faults of ignorance are excusable only where the ignorance itself is so — Sacha Guitry
Hurting other people is not excusable because you've been hurt yourself. — Jilly Cooper
It isn't chic for women to be drunk. Men drunks are more excusable, more easily absolved, but why? It must be thought they have better reasons. — Margaret Atwood
