Accuses Quotes

#1. You can speak truth to power, ... but when you speak truth to weakness, weakness gets mad and queasy. It accuses you of its own insecurity."
"The Off Season: A Victorian Sequel

Jack Cady

#2. You try to steer a course in American society that's not self-destructive. But America is a country that inflicts injury. It does not like to see anything that comes in response, and accuses one of anger as if it were an unnatural response.

Randall Robinson

#3. Students usually don't refer to themselves as nerds until someone else accuses them of being one.

Alexandra Robbins

#4. First he accuses me of trying to do the right thing, and now he tells me he trusts me. What am I, a fucking priestess?

A.F.E. Smith

#5. Who now accuses? Who now condemns? Christ has died, yes rather, has risen again.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#6. You have been with the same guy for three years. If anyone accuses you of being a whore for sleeping with the second man of your college career, I'll cut a bitch.

Angeline Kace

#7. I want to say that nobody accuses their parents of abusing them without justification to do that. I didn't just make it up. A lot of things were true and abusive and horrible things that happened to me that my father did.

Roseanne Barr

#8. And when someone accuses you of being selfish, just remember that he's upset only because you aren't doing what he selfishly wants you to do.

Harry Browne

#9. My wife accuses me - and she's probably right - that I'm sometimes oversensitive.

Joe Torre

#10. A small minority in Turkey even accuses me of having political ambitions, when in fact I have been struggling with various illnesses for many years.

Fethullah Gulen

#11. He who accuses another of being an evil person says so because he is afraid of him.

Muhammad Taqi Usmani

#12. He who accuses another of wrong should look well into his own conduct.

Plautus

#13. Society, to be sure, does not like this very well; it saith, Whoso goes to walk alone, accuses the whole world; he declares all to be unfit to be his companions; it is very uncivil, nay, insulting; Society will retaliate.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14. It is all fun and games until a sore loser loses or someone accuses someone of cheating.

R.K. Cowles

#15. Everyone in my book accuses everyone else of being crazy. Frankly, I think the whole society is nuts - and the question is: What does a sane man do in an insane society?

Joseph Heller

#16. Whenever someone accuses someone of being a racist - which is rare, you have to admit, considering how much racism there is - there is an incredible outrage. I realized that we live in an environment that it seems to be worse to call someone a racist than to be one.

Fran Lebowitz

#17. Each government accuses the other of perfidy, intrigue and ambition, as a means of heating the imagination of their respective nations, and incensing them to hostilities. Man is not the enemy of man, but through the medium of a false system of government.

Thomas Paine

#18. He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one.

Edmund Burke

#19. One thing that America is objectively exceptional at is overreacting whenever anyone accuses them of not being exceptional.

John Oliver

#20. Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means that that person is just.

Ayn Rand

#21. When someone accuses you of being 'childish', I think you should take it as a compliment.

Stana Katic

#22. If someone accuses me of not being born here, I can go -within 10 minutes - to my filing cabinet and I can pick up my real birth certificate and I can go, 'See? Look! Here it is. Here it is.'

Luke Scott

#23. Words like 'custody' don't mean the same thing to him. I don't want us to own anything together. "You don't want to be happy," he accuses me.

Eula Biss

#24. If anyone accuses me of contradicting myself, I shall reply; I have been wrong once or more often, however I do not aspire to be always wrong.

Luc De Clapiers

#25. Everybody accuses me of moving fast when I direct a picture. I don't move fast, but I just keep moving.

Clint Eastwood

#26. Then, finally, we were ready to charge in and save Sadie, and she rides up in a limousine driven by an ugly dwarf in a swimsuit, and she accuses us of being late.
So when she told us the dwarf was driving us to Russia, I was like, "Whatever." And I got into the car.

Rick Riordan

#27. [..] two Popsicles are talking to each other. One accuses, "You're more interested in fantasy than reality". The other responds, "I'm interested in the reality of my fantasy." Both of the Popsicles are melting of their sticks.

Maggie Nelson

#28. Conscience is harder than our enemies, knows more, accuses with more nicety.

George Eliot

#29. When John Quincy Adams in the Netherlands was placed with elementary students and belittled because he did not speak Dutch, either the author or John Adams accuses school authorities of "littleness of soul".

Paul C. Nagel

#30. Righteous Lord, I have many who falsely accuse me. Defend me from them! But I also know my sin, and my heart rightly accuses me. I rest in Jesus's atoning death for me.

Timothy J. Keller

#31. He always accuses me of trying to look'cool', I was like, 'everybody tries to look cool, I just happen to be successful.

Daniel Clowes

#32. He wrongly accuses Neptune, who makes shipwreck a second time.

Publilius Syrus

#33. 'No Flex Zone' is when somebody walks in and accuses you of stealing their cellphone, and you didn't, and you know in your pocket you have enough money to buy their cellphone, and you have your own.

Slim Jimmy

#34. If somebody accuses you in a story of being a crook, you can demand that they prove it. But if a comic says it and you protest, people say, 'What's the matter, you can't take a joke?

Robert Orben

#35. What's nefarious?'
'I don't know, but my grandma accuses me of having them when she thinks I done something bad and it sounds good.

Joss Stirling

#36. My wife Hillary sometimes accuses me of trying to reinvent the 19th century. In some ways she's right because I like things that I can understand and that aren't too complicated.

Wilbur Ross

#37. Our coveting exposes that we have set our hearts upon earthly gain. The more we seek our treasure outside of Christ, the more we falsely believe that God is lacking in His goodness to us. Essentially, our coveting accuses God of a failure to reign well over the events in our lives. Failing

Melissa B. Kruger

#38. If anyone accuses me of lying, I'll simply say I'm not lying, which is just an extension of the overall lying strategy.

Mitt Romney

#39. I know it's a really hard concept to process, but the fact that Govt accuses someone of being a Terrorist doesn't mean they are.

Glenn Greenwald

#40. Aware of how often she hides her good qualities because she is afraid of being misunderstood or mocked, she accuses herself of being uncharitable, supercilious,

Francine Prose

#41. Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.

Immanuel Kant

#42. Legacy media accuses young people of being apathetic while actively attempting to remove them from the discussion.

Hank Green

#43. He accuses himself, he curses himself, he implores my forgiveness!...He confesses his cheat. He loves me! He lays at my feet an immense and tragic love. ... He has carried me off for love!...He has imprisoned me with him, underground, for love!...

Gaston Leroux

#44. Bitterness has not the capacity to make the distinction between some and all. When some members of the dominant group, particularly those in power, are racist in attitude and practice, bitterness accuses the whole group.

Martin Luther King Jr.