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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation. -- Henry Fielding
Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution. -- Edwin Louis Cole
One accusation you can't throw at me is that I've always done my best. -- Alan Shearer
I am ready to accept all accusations, allegations, anger - but I have to succeed. -- Boris Trajkovski
Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation. -- Philip Massinger
Now that I have called you on your false accusation, you are using additional smear tactics. -- George Soros
A trial without witnesses, when it involves a criminal accusation, a criminal matter, is not a true trial. -- Bill McCollum
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
Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves. -- George Haven Putnam
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
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
If people around the world knew how well people at Guantanamo Bay are treating prisoners, they would not fall prey to the accusations that some in our Chamber are making. They are all receiving judicial review. -- Robin Hayes
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
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
In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring. -- Enid Bagnold
People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation. -- Elias Canetti
It's always convenient for certain people to heap accusations on Israel. -- Yasser Arafat
I do not believe the accusations against my husband, not for one second. -- Anne Sinclair
The accusation that we've lost our soul resonates with a very modern concern about authenticity. -- Patricia Hewitt
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
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
When they write about real stuff like my custody battle, that's no fun. Some things have leaked out about accusations that have gone back and forth and that's just mean. It's a tactic. -- Dean Cain
Accusations are made directly to Rome about theologians from persons who are not theologians. Some of these accusations are anonymous. The local bishop should be the one to relate to theologians to determine orthodoxy. -- Godfried Danneels
Well that's true, and what is actually happening now is that there are accusations that those records contain conspiratorial information that has been concealed from the American people and that is a dangerous situation that just cannot be tolerated. -- Louis Stokes
I would never withhold information about the murder of my man Biggie, or anybody else. It's just silly and ridiculous. The accusations are just flying out. All I've been trying to do all my life is to make great music. -- Sean Combs
Accusations are useless. -- Dominique de Villepin
That is the biggest form of bullying ever, the paparazzi. Printing lies, making accusations, it's just bullying. -- Mila Kunis
Using a big word like 'plagiarism'... always causes some damage. It will always do lasting damage, like accusations of racism. -- Michel Houellebecq
Each time there is a conflict between Israel and Gaza, accusations fly over who started it, each side blaming the other. -- Richard Engel
I don't think you should have everybody's information from their bank. There should be some process: accusations and proof that you've committed a crime. -- Rand Paul
A moral argument about whether censorship is good or bad deteriorates quickly into accusations about who is more or less patriotic, moral, pious, and so on. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
One of the most effective tools that the Cheney-Bush junta has used to marginalize dissenting or even mildly inquisitive American citizens has been the accusation of being unpatriotic. -- Viggo Mortensen
All my life I have been taught to take the high road and never to dignify salacious or false accusations and I have been taught never, never to lie. -- Paula Abdul
I would never withhold information about the murder of my man Biggie, or anybody else. It's just silly and ridiculous. The accusations are just flying out. All I've been trying to do all my life is to make great music. -- Sean Combs
The core distortion of the War on Terror under both Bush and Obama is the Orwellian practice of equating government accusations of terrorism with proof of guilt. One constantly hears U.S. government defenders referring to 'terrorists' when what they actually mean is: those accused by the government of terrorism. -- Glenn Greenwald
I may be what my enemies desire me to be, yet never an accusation are they able to hurl against me which makes me blush or lower my forehead; and I hope that God will be merciful enough with me, to prevent me from committing one of those faults which would involve my family. -- Jose Rizal
The accusation of cultural insensitivity is a weapon. -- Bassam Tibi
Every accusation against a fallen man gains credence. -- Publilius Syrus
The accusation that I am a woman is incontrovertible. -- Frances Perkins
Do not cast away an honest man for a villain's accusation. -- William Shakespeare
The accusation 'unprofessional' means 'You did not behave like a machine today. -- Tom Hodgkinson
Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is black charcoal crushing white paper. -- Gunter Grass
Grace silences the voice of accusation and wipes all the evidence of guilt -- Ikechukwu Izuakor
The accusation is always on the first page, and the retraction on page 19. -- Paul Newman
His thin accusation hung thick in the air like fog smoking a cigarette. -- Jarod Kintz
I doubt not then but innocence shall makeFalse accusation blush, and tyrannyTremble at patience. -- William Shakespeare
Like a rough orator, that brings more truth Than rhetoric, to make good his accusation. -- Philip Massinger
You took a bath without me?" I smiled to myself at the accusation in his voice. -- Katie MacAlister
Privilege is something else.Privilege is a judgment.Privilege is an opinion.Privilege is an accusation. -- Joan Didion
Well, there's a lot to react against![in response to the accusation that she was a reactionary] -- Margaret Thatcher
As in all moral panics, an accusation is enough to destroy a person's life. Hysteria trumps evidence. -- Carol Tavris
Worry is itself an illness, since worry is an accusation against Divine Wisdom, a criticism of Divine Mercy. -- Said Nursi
Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper. -- Gunter Grass
I wish I had said 'some athletes here are competing unfairly.' It was my opinion, never an accusation. -- Bob Costas
I saw no evidence during my week in Gaza of Israel's accusation that Hamas uses Palestinians as human shields. -- Jeremy Bowen
suicide is the ultimate 'one-up,' as it were, the accusation that brooks no defense, the argument won at last. -- Joanne Greenberg
I regret the time and resources needed to undertake this but... it is right to lay this accusation to rest. -- David Blunkett
"Romanticizing the past" is a familiar accusation, made mostly by people who think it is more grown-up to romanticize the future. -- Paul Kingsnorth
Be this our wall of brass, to be conscious of having done no evil, and to grow pale at no accusation. -- Horace
The breath Of accusation kills an innocent name, And leaves for lame acquittal the poor life, Which is a mask without it. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
The candidates unleashing heated words about race, bigotry, and intolerance. Donald Trump chasing the minority vote and hurling a blistering accusation at his opponent. -- Martha Raddatz
We believe America is practicing all kinds of terrorism against Libya. Even the accusation that we are involved in terrorism is in itself an act of terrorism. -- Muammar al-Gaddafi
I am fully aware of what the word 'fat' means ... It's a swear word. It's a weapon. It's a sociological subspecies. It's an accusation, dismissal, and rejection. -- Caitlin Moran
The only accusation of Gillian Triggs with the ring of truth is that she has lost the confidence of the government - but then, so too has Tony Abbott. -- Richard Flanagan
"Sentimentalist" is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental is worse that to be cruel, which it isn't. -- Brigid Brophy
In spite of muzzling the press, imprisoning thousands, and engaging in torture, kidnapping and murder, the Socialist government was still vulnerable to the accusation of being "soft on Basques. -- Mark Kurlansky
The nonsense about President Obama being a Muslim has got to stop. I rise to defend him from this absurd accusation by pointing out that he is obviously an atheist. -- Ann Coulter
Uselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which are done for their own sake are their own justification. -- George Santayana
From the philosopher Catulus, never to be dismissive of a friend's accusation, even if it seems unreasonable, but to make every effort to restore the relationship to its normal condition. -- Marcus Aurelius
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
The accusation that President Clinton cares deeply about nothing is refuted by his tenacious and guileful battle to prevent any meaningful limits on the form of infanticide known as partial-birth abortion. -- George Will
As for the accusation of intellectual pride, surely the boot is on the other foot. Atheists don't claim to know anything with certainty -- it's the believers who know it all. -- Barbara Smoker
Big business' was a bad phrase in India. To be accused of being big business was the worst accusation you could make. All that has gone now. The whole mindset has changed. -- P. Chidambaram
It is in the habits of lawyers that every accusation appears insufficient if they do not exaggerate it even to calumny; it is thus that justice itself loses its sanctity and its respect amongst men. -- Alphonse de Lamartine
By the accusation of liberal bias ... the institutions that conservatives revere - the military, corporate America, organized religion, and the powerful conservative groups themselves - will be able to escape scrutiny and increase their influence. -- Eric Alterman

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