Accusation Quotes

When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour.
Piers Anthony

Person, Sometimes, Guilty

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Character, Fire, Down

Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.
Edwin Louis Cole

God, Knowledge, Against

Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
Henry Fielding

Guilt, Quick, Ears

I have much to say why my reputation should be rescued from the load of false accusation and calumny which has been heaped upon it.
Robert Emmet

Why, Reputation, False

Now that I have called you on your false accusation, you are using additional smear tactics.
George Soros

False, Using, Tactics

A trial without witnesses, when it involves a criminal accusation, a criminal matter, is not a true trial.
Bill McCollum

True, Matter, Trial

Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation.
Philip Massinger

Give, False, Credit

I suppose for whatever reason I actively welcome being put down, something which perhaps goes back to my upbringing - that accusation of not being worthy which could be laid at one's door.
Paul Muldoon

Down, Put, Reason

One accusation you can't throw at me is that I've always done my best.
Alan Shearer

Best, Done, Throw

Everybody has a right to be defended, and every lawyer has a duty to defend people accused. And my office is to defend him, to discuss the accusation point by point, as I think this is a normal step in a democracy.
Jacques Verges

Democracy, Him, Point

The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.
Henry James

May, Hold, Novel

The accusation that we've lost our soul resonates with a very modern concern about authenticity.
Patricia Hewitt

Lost, Soul, Modern

People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.
Elias Canetti

Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper.
Gunter Grass

Art, Fight, Passion

What about the accusation that Hollywood is trying to advance its liberal agenda? Well, the fact is, while the creative community admittedly leans left, Hollywood has become a corporate town.
Steven Levitan

Trying, Become, Creative

This hype word bothers me though It always sounds like an accusation, what does it mean, advertising, column inches in the press? Bands themselves are never really responsible for all of that. That is something that happens to you when you sell millions of records.
Holly Johnson

Mean, Word, Themselves

For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of this accusation.
Fritz Todt

Engineers, Value, Buildings

I wish I had said 'some athletes here are competing unfairly.' It was my opinion, never an accusation.
Bob Costas

Wish, Said, Opinion

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