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Accuse not nature: she hath done her part; Do thou but thine. -- John Milton
No one will ever accuse James Carville of taking himself seriously. -- James Carville
People accuse me of being arrogant all the time. I'm not arrogant, I'm focused. -- Russell Crowe
If you don't believe what other people believe, then they'll accuse you of being nihilistic. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Some people accuse the new generation of being ignorant, maybe ignorant for the old generation, but it's a new language. -- Domenico Dolce
Lots of women love to accuse men of being immature when the fellow in question displays a reluctance to 'commit.' -- Julie Burchill
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse. -- Oliver Goldsmith
You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. -- Hal Borland
I've never really understood that. It's a funny thing; people sometimes accuse us of condescending to our characters somehow-that to me is kind of inexplicable. -- Joel Coen
Maybe someday you can accuse somebody of being a poseur by selling out and playing blues music, but that's just not going to happen in my lifetime. -- John Mayer
I am falsely accused, without proof, of using my position for personal profit. Many who accuse me have lifestyles and spending habits that make them walking proofs of that crime. -- Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
It's no secret that I didn't love 'An Officer And A Gentleman' then, and I certainly don't love it now, so at least no one could accuse me of being inconsistent. -- Debra Winger
I do sometimes accuse people of ignorance, but that is not intended to be an insult. I'm ignorant of lots of things. Ignorance is something that can be remedied by education. -- Richard Dawkins
I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself. -- Nelson Mandela
I often hear them accuse Israel of Judaizing Jerusalem. That's like accusing America of Americanizing Washington, or the British of Anglicizing London. You know why we're called 'Jews'? Because we come from Judea. -- Benjamin Netanyahu
Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say that taxes have been assessed too high and collected too rigidly. -- Henry Knox
Ye have brought this man unto me, as one that perverteth the people; and behold, I, having examined him before you, have found no fault in this man touching those things whereof ye accuse him. -- Pontius Pilate
To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete. -- Epictetus
Now and then, someone would accuse me of being evil - of letting people destroy themselves while I watched, just so I could film them and tape-record them. But I didn't think of myself as evil - just realistic. -- Andy Warhol
A government that can at pleasure accuse, shoot, and hang men, as traitors, for the one general offence of refusing to surrender themselves and their property unreservedly to its arbitrary will, can practice any and all special and particular oppressions it pleases. -- Lysander Spooner
If you do not accuse each other, God will not accuse you. If you have no accuser you will enter heaven. What many people call sin is not sin; I do many things to break down superstition, and I will break it down. -- Joseph Smith, Jr.
A prisoner in the Inquisition is never allowed to see the face of his accuser, or of the witnesses against him, but every method is taken by threats and tortures, to oblige him to accuse himself, and by that means corroborate their evidence. -- John Foxe
People always accuse me of being motivational in a way, like it was a bad thing, but that's just how I was raised. My mom raised me in a positive environment, with lots of love in my heart, and that reflects in my music. -- Lenny Kravitz
My guiltiest pleasure is Harry Stephen Keeler. He may have been the greatest bad writer America has ever produced. Or perhaps the worst great writer. I do not know. There are few faults you can accuse him of that he is not guilty of. But I love him. -- Neil Gaiman
I am very averse to bringing myself forward in print, but as my account will only appear as an appendage to a former production, and as it will be confined to such topics as have connection with my authorship alone, I can hardly accuse myself of a personal intrusion. -- Mary Shelley
Good Christian people, I am come hither to die, for according to the law, and by the law I am judged to die, and therefore I will speak nothing against it. I am come hither to accuse no man, nor to speak anything of that, whereof I am accused and condemned to die. -- Anne Boleyn
Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself. -- Eric Clapton
To accuse me of being too inflexible is poppycock. -- Margaret Thatcher
You can't accuse me of anything I haven't already confessed to. -- Keith Richards
It is the devil's masterstroke to get us to accuse him -- George Meredith
The last thing I would accuse a cat of is innocence. -- Edward Graham Paley
It's unfair of a circle to accuse the angle of being sharp. -- Multatuli
Before you abuse, criticize, and accuse walk a mile in my shoes. -- Elvis Presley
Just tell the truth, and they'll accuse you of writing black humor. -- Charles Willeford
Why did the wise guys always accuse other people of being wise guys? -- Robert Cormier
I would never accuse Willie Brown of slowing down, because he never does. -- James Richardson
It's absurd to accuse Serbia and the Serbs for the armed secession of Croatia,. -- Slobodan MiloseviÄ?
When women go to see men strip, we never accuse you of hating men. -- Joe Rogan
When men are scared of a woman, they always accuse her of being mannish. -- Elizabeth Aston
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. -- Mother Teresa
It's absurd to accuse Serbia and the Serbs for the armed secession of Croatia,. -- Slobodan MiloseviÄ?
It's absurd to accuse Serbia and the Serbs for the armed secession of Croatia,. -- Slobodan MiloseviÄ?
I don't think very many people would accuse Paula Zahn of being a conservative. -- Brit Hume
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. -- Denis Diderot
I hereby accuse the North American empire of being the biggest menace to our planet. -- Hugo Chavez
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway. -- Mother Teresa
To blame and accuse other people, is to choose to empower them, to control us. -- Stephen Covey
You accuse me of black marketing, but which of you has not slept with me? -- Dhirubhai Ambani
I was desperate really for people not to accuse me of coldness. It was taboo. -- Thomas Dolby
It is much more easy to accuse the one sex than to excuse the other. -- Michel de Montaigne
You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely. -- Thucydides
The best way to know your faults is to notice which ones you accuse others of. -- James Richardson
To accuse is so easy that it is infamous to do so where proof is impossible! -- Zoe Akins
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things. -- Po Bronson
It's the last best trick of a losing Democrat, is to accuse the Republicans of racism. -- Erick Erickson
Should I eat first or accuse the Master of the City of murder? Choices, choices. -Anita -- Laurell K. Hamilton
Virtually all modern forms of extremism accuse liberal Western democratic systems of being hypocritical and, ultimately, weak. -- Jonas Gahr Store
Don't accuse others of your past, hidden guilt and sins." ~ Angelica Hopes, If I Could Tell You -- Angelica Hopes
Tears throw a veil over our faults and allow us to accuse fate without fear or contradiction. -- Italo Svevo
People accuse me of glamorizing mental illness. Looking back sometimes, that's true. But I don't feel guilty. -- Andy Behrman
How does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior. -- Timothy Keller
My purist comedy friends accuse me of being a Jack of all trades and master of none. -- Marcus Brigstocke
You know no one will ever accuse me as having the same policies as George W. Bush. -- Hillary Clinton
I mean, some people accuse me of being racist. I'm totally not, I'm just better than everybody else. -- Zach Braff
Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime. -- W. E. B. Du Bois
It was hard for them to accuse their wives of infidelity when their rival was an invisible man. -- Diane Wakoski
It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it. -- Michel de Montaigne
Guys. If your pants are below your ass you have no right to accuse any lady of dressing slutty. -- Kristen Schaal
It's a bit unfair to accuse Obama of dividing the nation when the facts show that it already is. -- Ron Fournier
Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts. -- Lord Chesterfield
When people accuse me of being really posh, I think, 'Hang on a minute - no, I'm not!' -- Rob James-Collier
You accuse a woman of wavering affections, but don't blame her; she is just looking for a consistent man. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You could accuse Republicans of a lot of things, but you could never convict us of being too conservative! -- Jim DeMint
The same people who accuse America of coddling dictators are sputtering with bilious fury because we actually deposed one. -- James Lileks
When something goes wrong, accuse yourself first. Even the wisdom of Plato or Solomon can wobble and go blind -- Rumi
Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts. -- Lord Chesterfield
I don't want anybody to accuse me of taking advantage of the situation to pursue a particular political agenda. -- Thomas de Maiziere
Politicians never accuse you of 'greed' for wanting other people's money - only for wanting to keep your own money. -- Joseph Sobran
For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man's nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice. -- Thomas Hobbes
ACCUSE, v.t. To affirm another's guilt or unworth; most commonly as a justification of ourselves for having wronged him. -- Ambrose Bierce
That's why we had Louis C.K. portray the harder line Communist, to accuse [Dalton] Trumbo of being a hypocrite. -- Jay Roach
[Marx] explicates ideology as socially determined, [Stirner] as psychologically determined: both accuse it of remaining oblivious to its own determinations. -- John Carroll
I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding. -- Gustav Mahler
People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us? -- Yoko Ono
The best criticism is the sort that tells you what you already know but had been reluctant to accuse yourself of. -- J. D. McClatchy
If you don't speak Spanish, then don't accuse me of insulting you in that language, let alone insulting you ten times. -- Luis Suarez
I've seen how the left has used it to accuse opponents of their version of reform of being bigots and racists. -- Marco Rubio
Better confide and be deceiv'd, A thousand times, by treacherous foes, Than once accuse the innocent, Or let suspicion mar repose. -- Frances Sargent Osgood
Moderation is part of faith, so those who accuse Muslim schools of fostering fanaticism should learn a bit more about Islam. -- Cat Stevens
You can't accuse the creator of The Boondocks, ... Jesus was black, Ronald Reagan was the devil and the government is lying about 9/11. -- Aaron McGruder
Sometimes people accuse me of being incomprehensible only because they look for an explicative side to my pictures which is not there. -- Paul Gauguin
To accuse me of making sensations is the easiest way of attacking me, and in reality leaves the question of sculpture untouched. -- Jacob Epstein
I try hard and aim big. People can hate or love my books but they can never accuse me of not trying. -- Markus Zusak
They accuse me of having a hard hand, but people closest to me know that is not the nature of my heart. -- Tomas Borge
In India, the corrupt accuse the corrupt of being corrupt and the corrupt investigate the corrupt and absolve the corrupt of being corrupt. -- Shekhar Kapur
I think Sin City is a good example. Nobody would accuse Sin City of being historically inaccurate because it takes place in modern times. -- Zack Snyder
It is the writer's business not to accuse and not to prosecute, but to champion the guilty, once they are condemned and suffer punishment. -- Anton Chekhov
The only way you can ever accuse a Conservative of hypocrisy is if they walk past a homeless person without kicking him in the face. -- Jeremy Hardy
When African-American police officers involved in a police action shooting involving an African-American, why would Hillary Clinton accuse that African-American police officer of implicit bias? -- Mike Pence
The more I accuse myself, the more right I have to judge you. Even better, I make you judge yourself, which comforts me the more. -- Albert Camus
If you don't think you're close-minded for not believing in Zeus, then please don't accuse atheists of being close-minded for not believing in your god. -- Greta Christina
Great is paint; nay, God is the painter; and we rightly accuse the critic who destroys too many illusions. Society does not love its unmaskers. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The boys. The beef-witted featherbrained rattleskulled clod-pated dim-domed noodle-noggined sapheaded lunk-knobbed boys. How could anybody accuse her of stealing them? Why would anybody want them anyway? -- William Goldman
To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has a weak brain is a crime. -- Primo Levi
There's the one thing no nation can ever accuse us of and that is secret diplomacy. Our foreign are an open book, generally a check book. -- Will Rogers
Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one does not accuse him as if one were God or a judge placed above him. -- Erich Fromm
there are people who read my work and accuse me of being political! As far as I'm concerned that's like accusing a dog of having a bark! -- Barbara Kingsolver
I would much rather people kick and scream and tear their hair out and accuse me of all kinds of blasphemy, than just have no opinion whatsoever. -- DJ Shadow
People always accuse me of making these dark, depressing movies. 'Why do you have to pick up on real issues? People are so exhausted and miserable.' -- Anurag Kashyap
I didn't want people to accuse me of being really depressive. I really tried to fight against that and not have a complete downer about the subject. -- Joe Casey
I've been ripped for being too sensitive, but I do think people need to walk in another person's shoes before they accuse them of being too sensitive. -- Hank Haney
I am not a trained writer and I don't think anyone would accuse me of being a funny person. But I feel God has truly blessed me. -- Vantile Whitfield
I've had people accuse me of being too tough of a grader. But my job is to paint reality versus telling people what they want to hear. -- Steve Burke
Do you know, sire, I think that if we live to tell our grandchildren about this war, they will accuse us of making it up.' -Marielle -- Tamora Pierce
I find it difficult [to believe] that... Christians accuse [Black Muslims] of teaching racial supremacy or... hatred, because their own history and... teachings are filled with it. -- Malcolm X
I love the Olympics, because they enable people from all over the world to come together and--regardless of their political or cultural differences--accuse each other of cheating. -- Dave Barry
Listen to me, Frankenstein. You accuse me of murder; and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature. Oh, praise the eternal justice of man! -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Psychotic hallucinations, whether they are visual or vocal, they address you. They accuse you. They seduce you. They humiliate you. They jeer at you. You interact with them. -- Oliver Sacks
Eve had one advantage over all the rest of her sex. In his wildest moments of rage Adam never could accuse her of being 'just like her mother! -- Helen Rowland
It became clear to the whole world that a totalitarian regime could neither accuse nor transform itself: suicide was not in its nature, it could only kill others. -- Svetlana Alliluyeva

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