"Self-justification" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... more until late in the autumn when she came, without a word of self-justification or apology for her conduct, to lend her mother a helping hand in spinning and weaving her little brothers' and sisters' clothes. And gradually the eclat attendant upon her nuptials was forgotten, except that Mrs. Hollis now and then remarks that she "dunno how we could ...
— The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories • Charles Egbert Craddock
... am from Denver, Colorado, where folks don't fuss like you do in the East, just because you cross a street to get to the other side!" declared Dodo, in self-justification. ...
— Polly's Business Venture • Lillian Elizabeth Roy
... past twelve years these two had stood shoulder to shoulder through both many times over. But their zeal produced no manifest results. Denvil's temperature rose steadily, and his stress of mind broke out in a semi-coherent babble of remorse and self-justification, of argument and appeal, of desperate reckonings in regard to ways and means. Desmond left his station by the bed and crossed over to his friend, who was noiselessly washing a ...
— Captain Desmond, V.C. • Maud Diver
... have answered her in kind, but self-justification passed his power. He couldn't say, "Because this evening you made me lose faith in everything, and I thought to forget you by going to the devil the quickest way I knew—this way!"—though that was true. He couldn't say: ...
— The Lone Wolf - A Melodrama • Louis Joseph Vance
... child is too shrinking, too sensitive, it may do it a world of good cheerfully to spank its posterior. Not brutally, not cruelly, but with real sound, good-natured exasperation. And let the adult take the full responsibility, half humorously, without apology or explanation. Let us avoid self-justification at all costs. Real corporal punishments apply to the sensual plane. The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack. The pained but resigned disapprobation of a mother is usually ...
— Fantasia of the Unconscious • D. H. Lawrence
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