The artistic temperament is too often only an alibi for lack of responsibility.... - Edmund Crispin
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
The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience. - Albert Camus
All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance. - Will Rogers