Top 127 Accusation Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on April 14, 2025.
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.
Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation.
I regret the time and resources needed to undertake this but... it is right to lay this accusation to rest.
"Romanticizing the past" is a familiar accusation, made mostly by people who think it is more grown-up to romanticize the future.
Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution.
Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
The breath Of accusation kills an innocent name, And leaves for lame acquittal the poor life, Which is a mask without it.
I doubt not then but innocence shall makeFalse accusation blush, and tyrannyTremble at patience.
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.
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.
The accusation is always on the first page, and the retraction on page 19.
Now that I have called you on your false accusation, you are using additional smear tactics.
Stupidity is not an accusation that could be hurled against such prominent early Republicans as Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root and Charles Evans Hughes.
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.
I - listen, racism - being a racist is the worst thing you can say about somebody. I mean, it is such a charged accusation. And I really think people should be very careful before they level that.
The accusation that we've lost our soul resonates with a very modern concern about authenticity.
Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper.
If my son had a baseless accusation made against him at a university, and it was making his life there miserable, I would suggest he transfer or take courses online.
"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.
You took a bath without me?" I smiled to myself at the accusation in his voice.
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.
'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.
The accusation 'unprofessional' means 'You did not behave like a machine today.
One accusation you can't throw at me is that I've always done my best.
Well, there's a lot to react against![in response to the accusation that she was a reactionary]
The accusation that I am a woman is incontrovertible.
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.
As in all moral panics, an accusation is enough to destroy a person's life. Hysteria trumps evidence.
Be this our wall of brass, to be conscious of having done no evil, and to grow pale at no accusation.
Worry is itself an illness, since worry is an accusation against Divine Wisdom, a criticism of Divine Mercy.
I wish I had said 'some athletes here are competing unfairly.' It was my opinion, never an accusation.
Normally in the past whenever Everton have beaten Liverpool, the accusation was that they wanted it a little bit more.
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.
For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of this accusation.
Like a rough orator, that brings more truth Than rhetoric, to make good his accusation.
It can be a living hell to go through endless campus investigations. I've seen this go down, and there really is no winning once the accusation is made, even if the process provides formal vindication.
Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is black charcoal crushing white paper.
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.
Since time immemorial and pre-industrial, 'greed' has been the accusation hurled at the rich by the concrete-bound illiterates who were unable to conceive of the source of wealth or of the motivation of those who produce it.
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.
We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another.
A trial without witnesses, when it involves a criminal accusation, a criminal matter, is not a true trial.
One of the myths propagated by the enemies of Israel is that there is an all-powerful Zionist conspiracy. That is a false accusation. Nevertheless, that AIPAC has been so successful in suppressing criticism has lent some credence to such false beliefs.
Do not cast away an honest man for a villain's accusation.
People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.
Every accusation against a fallen man gains credence.
The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.
The candidates unleashing heated words about race, bigotry, and intolerance. Donald Trump chasing the minority vote and hurling a blistering accusation at his opponent.
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.
There's nothing in this country that is a worse accusation - in America, if you accuse somebody of racism, that person has to disprove that.
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.
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.
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.
Everyone - male and female - is biased. But no one wants to admit it, so our brains search for examples that disprove the accusation.
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.
The accusation of cultural insensitivity is a weapon.
suicide is the ultimate 'one-up,' as it were, the accusation that brooks no defense, the argument won at last.
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.
I saw no evidence during my week in Gaza of Israel’s accusation that Hamas uses Palestinians as human shields.
Come, fix upon me that accusing eye.
I thirst for accusation. All that was sung.
All that was said in Ireland is a lie
Breed out of the contagion of the throng,
Saving the rhyme rats hear before they die.
