Accused Quotes

I think the adverb is a much-maligned part of speech. Its always accused of being oppressive, even tyrannical, when in fact its so supple and sly.

It seems odd that we continue to worry about the reputations of men who are accused of sexual wrong-doings.

It is requisite to defend those who are unjustly accused of having acted injuriously, but to praise those who excel in a certain good.

We Californians are constantly accused of not having seasons, but we do. We have fire, flood, mud, and drought.

Mr.Blank's reputation as a card shark had preceded him. No one accused him of being dishonest, but on the other hand no one accused him of being honest.

Fluency in English is something that I'm often not accused of.

I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.

I am disappointed to find myself accused in some papers of supplying the offending sweets, particularly as I am a fruit pastille man.

As for me, even though I have been accused of anti-Semitism countless times, no one has ever heard me make anti-Semitic statements or engage in anti-Semitic behavior.

Women speak at an earlier age, more easily, and more agreeably than men; they are accused also of speaking more; this is as it should be, and I willingly change the reproach into a eulogy.

Our King [Jesus] is accused of treachery; it is said of him [by the Muslims] that he is not God, but that he falsely pretended to be something he was not.

Were we a rational society, a virtue of which we have rarely been accused, we would husband our oil and gas resources.

I was even accused of teaching the chimps how to fish for termites which I mean that would have been such a brilliant coup.

I have been accused of being a traitor, and I have been accused of not supporting the military. Nothing could be further from the truth.

The worst thing I could be accused of is that I'm a one-way dude, only out for myself. But the worst thing a woman can do is not to say anything. Especially when you're starting a relationship.

Those who feel they are clean, go ahead and throw the first rock. If you're clean, if you have not done anything wrong or been accused of anything wrong, go ahead and start the show.

When I was in the penitentiary after being accused of killing a policeman, I was more in the system in the penitentiary than ever.

The Chinese had accused the Tibetans of being terrorists, which is weird. A Tibetan terrorist is like an Amish hacker. It just doesn't fit.

The young are often accused of exaggerating their troubles; they do so, very often, in the hope of making some impression upon the inertia and the immovability of the selfish old.

I've been accused of being aloof. I'm not. I'm just wary.

The great irony is that women are accused of making romantic comedies, as if it’s a bad thing, but Marc Webb makes a romantic comedy and he gets ‘Spider-Man.’ Are you kidding me? You cannot win.

I've been accused of not really paying attention to a sentence unless my name comes up in it twice.

If the devil went about doing a tenth of what he is accused of doing he would be poor from paying the blacksmith for ox-shoes for his hooves.

What is slander? A verdict of "guilty" pronounced in the absence of the accused, with closed doors, without defence or appeal, by an interested and prejudiced judge.

Being accused of enthusiasm is something I'll never live down.

Secularists are often wrongly accused of trying to purge religious ideals from public discourse. We simply want to deny them public sponsorship.

It's not fair that the accused is not protected from adverse publicity whilst the accuser is guaranteed anonymity, whatever the verdict.

Hour after hour, they shouted at me, accused me, insulted me and members of my family.

And if Bradley Manning really did as he is accused, he is a hero, an example to us all and one of the world's foremost political prisoners.

I've been accused of deliberately hamming up my accent and dropping letters, but that's just how I speak - I used to be a chav.

If you start pandering to young people, you're going to get accused of simply giving people what they want.

I am often accused of interfering in the private lives of citizens. Yes, if I did not, had I not done that, we wouldn't be here today.

Men are sometimes accused of pride, merely because their accusers would be proud themselves were they in their places.

Every man of any education would rather be called a rascal, than accused of deficiency in the graces.

I've been accused of lacking compassion. But that just shows I'm not without compassion.

My goal is to be accused of being strident.

We resent being faced with facts we'd prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven't.

The Queen has been guillotined, accused of crimes beyond imagining. Last night she appeared to me in a dream, handing me her head.

I have heard myself accused of being an opponent, an enemy of mathematics, which no one can value more highly than I, for it accomplishes the very thing whose achievement has been denied me.

It I talked about Watergate, I was described as struggling to free myself from the morass. If I did not talk about Watergate, I was accused of being out of touch with reality.

If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.

A big man is always accused of gluttony, whereas a wizened or osseous man can eat like a refugee at every meal, and no one ever notices his greed.

For although Claudius had been accused of gambling and drunkenness, not only were no worse sins laid to his charge, but he had successfully established some claim to being considered a learned man.

I've never sexually harassed anyone, and yes, I was falsely accused while I was at the National Restaurant Association.

When I interview people accused of capital offenses, I never even ask if they did it. I would consider that unprofessional.

It's great that I get accused of not being politically correct. People need to take themselves less seriously. This world is so screwed up as it is, we've all got to relax a bit more.

If people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up.

In a democratic country, when a man is accused, he's accused from a document issued by the public attorney.

I became chairman of the inmates committee. Got into a lot of trouble. Was accused of fomenting a riot. Was accused of plotting to kill the warden.

If you are accused of being a Christian, there should be enough evidence to convict you.