Excusable Quotes

Anything can become excusable when seen from the standpoint of the result — Yukio Mishima

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

[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