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Wisdom, though I admit, not without help from another quarter. It is all very well for you to sit in your armchair and be sapient and turn up your learned nose, like the gentlemen who criticise plays and poems, an easy job compared to the writing of them. From all of which, however, you will understand that I am, to tell the truth, rather ashamed of what followed, since qui s'excuse, s'accuse.
Not as if you were a giddy suffragette!" "Qui s'excuse s'accuse!" she retorted. "Anyway I'm the winner." "Right you are. The way of girls was ever so. No matter what line you take, it's safe to be the wrong one." "Hark at the Cynic!" jeered young Cuthbert. "Were you forty on the 9th, or was it forty-five?" Roy grinned. "Good old Cuthers! Don't exhaust yourself trying to be funny!
The boon companion, who her strong breastplate Buckles on him that feels no guilt within, And bids him on and fear not." Dante, c. xxviii. "Qui s'excuse s'accuse." "If a character can't defend itself, it's not worth defending." "No one was ever written down, except by himself."
It is, perhaps, unwise for me thus to make a clean breast of it, "qui s'excuse, s'accuse"; but I have something other than excuses to make: I may honestly plead before my old friends and students who shall read this book that my life has been mainly devoted to worthy work; that I can look back upon the leading things in it with satisfaction; that, whether as regards religion, politics, education, or the public service in general, it will be found not a matter of unrelated shreds and patches, but to have been developed in obedience to a well-defined line of purpose.
He expected a torrent of abuse and a storm of reproaches from her, but she refrained from either. She passed her arm within his, and walked beside him for several minutes in silence. Maurice, who felt rather guilty, was weak enough to say, hesitatingly, "The night was so fine, I strolled out to smoke " "Qui s'excuse s'accuse," quoted Helen; "only you are not smoking, Maurice!"
Pierre continued in a tone of displeasure, "I have not taken on myself the role of Natalie Rostova's knight at all, and have not been to their house for nearly a month. But I cannot understand the cruelty..." "Qui s'excuse s'accuse," * said Julie, smiling and waving the lint triumphantly, and to have the last word she promptly changed the subject. "Do you know what I heard today?
He at times almost verged on the slangy, which is, of course, quite correct and de haut ton, and he did not want to be taken for an old buffer, as were his contemporaries. Therefore he called himself an old buffer whenever he could. Qui s'excuse s'accuse. "Of course," he added, "we must take the poor fellows."
Name, as they say in the House." "No matter; these things are commonly said without foundation in this wicked world; but, still, it is always worth our while to prove them false, not, of course, directly 'qui s'excuse s'accuse' but indirectly." "I agree with you, and I shall do so in my uncle's presence.
Everybody who really knows you likes you, trusts you, and believes you to be an excellent fellow. You have taken some fancy into your head. Get rid of it, do." "It is no fancy, indeed it is not," said Ellis, more calmly. "Perhaps I was wrong to say anything about the matter. I know that there is a French saying, Qui s'excuse s'accuse. I'll not excuse myself more than I have done to you.
Once, when the attack was particularly atrocious, and the average citizen might well be excused if he believed that Jefferson wrote it, Jefferson, unmindful of the full bearing of the French proverb, Qui s'excuse s'accuse, wrote to Washington exculpating himself and protesting that he was not the author of that particular attack, and added that he had never written any article of that kind for the press.
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