Accused Quotes - Page 18

• Painted time is a different zone. This is why I don't believe that a painting - although I've been accused of it many times now - can be truly topical. A painting's physicality gives it a different persistence and a different perception.

  Luc Tuymans

  Believe, Persistence, Giving

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• TECHNICALITY, n. In an English court a man named Home was tried for slander in having accused his neighbor of murder. His exact words were: "Sir Thomas Holt hath taken a cleaver and stricken his cook upon the head, so that one side of the head fell upon one shoulder and the other side upon the other shoulder." The defendant was acquitted by instruction of the court, the learned judges holding that the words did not charge murder, for they did not affirm the death of the cook, that being only an inference.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Taken, Home, Men

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2526, Delphi Classics

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

  Herman Cain

  Association, Restaurants, Falsely Accused

  "Cain On Sexual Harassment Charge: 'Totally Baseless And Totally False'". Interview with Jenna Lee, www.realclearpolitics.com. October 31, 2011.

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• A lawyer once told a jury that the person his client stood accused of having killed was about to walk through the courtroom door. When the jurors looked startled, the lawyer asserted that if those jurors had wondered, even for one second that the victim might appear, that belief constituted enough reasonable doubt for them to find his client innocent.

  John Adams

  Doors, Law, Doubt

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• The bars could not hold me. Force could not control me. They tried to keep me down, but Jah put I around. Yes, I've been accused. Wrongly abused. But through the powers of the Most High, they've got to turn me loose.

  Bob Marley

  Bars, Serious, Force

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• I was accused of every monstrous vice by public rumour and private rancour; my name, which had been a knightly or noble one, was tainted. I felt that, if what was whispered, and muttered, and murmured, was true, I was unfit for England; if false, England was unfit for me.

  Lord Byron

  Names, Vices, Noble

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• We are accused here of polygamy, and actions the most indelicate, obscene, and disgusting, such that none but a corrupt and depraved heart could have contrived. These things are too outrageous to admit to belief.

  John Taylor

  Heart, Belief, Action

  Orson Pratt, John Taylor, William Gibson (O.B.E.) (1851). “A Series of Pamphlets”

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• I think that when you are accused of being in bad taste it can be quite positive. You're challenging the notions of polite society. I'd like to put across the notion that bad taste is actually good for you.

  Margaret Cho

  Thinking, Challenges, Taste

  "Margaret Cho: Laugh Lines". Interview with Katie Halper, www.guernicamag.com. June 15, 2015.

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• Something very unique about Germany is that once you are suspected or accused of having worked for the Stassi, it doesn't matter if you were 18-years-old, or a child, or an adult back then. Even if you deny it you won't get rid of this suspicion.

  Christian Schwochow

  Children, Unique, Years

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Every court of criminal justice must have the power of correcting the greatest and dangerous of all abuses of the forms of law - that of the protracted imprisonment of the accused, untried, perhaps not intended ever to be tried, it may be, not informed of the nature of the charge against him, or the name of the accuser.

  David Hume

  Law, Names, Justice

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• The victor will always be the judge, and the vanquished the accused.

  Hermann Goring

  Judging

  "Nuremberg Diary". Book by Gustave Gilbert, 1995 edition, p. 4, 1947.

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• It's probably hard for anyone looking at my landscapes today to realize that I was once regarded as a rebel, a dangerous influence; that I've been told I was on the verge of insanity, that my painting was nothing but meaningless daubs. Lawren Harris, the man most responsible for drawing the Group of Seven together, was accused of something perilously close to treason - his paintings, said his severest critics, were discouraging immigration.

  A. Y. Jackson

  Men, Drawing, Insanity

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• [I]n my country, when they would say a man has no sense, they say, such an one has no memory; and when I complain of the defect of mine, they do not believe me, and reprove me, as though I accused myself for a fool: not discerning the difference betwixt memory and understanding, which is to make matters still worse for me. But they do me wrong; for experience, rather, daily shows us, on the contrary, that a strong memory is commonly coupled with infirm judgment.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Country, Strong, Memories

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.239, Delphi Classics

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

  William Shenstone

  Pride, Men, Would Be

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• Large eyes were admired in Greece, where they still prevail. They are the finest of all when they have the internal look, which is not common. The stag or antelope eye of the Orientals is beautiful and lamping, but is accused of looking skittish and indifferent. "The epithet of 'stag-eyed,'" says Lady Wortley Montgu, speaking of a Turkish love-song, "pleases me extremely; and I think it a very lively image of the fire and indifference in his mistress' eye.

  Leigh Hunt

  Beautiful, Song, Eye

  Leigh Hunt (1873). “Men, Women, and Books: A Selection of Sketches, Essays, and Critical Memoirs, from His Uncollected Prose Writings”, p.216

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• Most of the bad taste I've been accused of has been generic bad taste; it's been making fun of an idea as opposed to a person.

  John Cleese

  Fun, Ideas, Taste

  "Ross and Brand were astoundingly tasteless". Interview with Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2008.

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• I don't even pretend we can occupy the Lib Dem holier-than-thou, hands-entirely-clean-and-entirely-empty-type stance. No, we are getting our hands dirty, and inevitably and totally understandably we are being accused of being just like any other politicians.

  Nick Clegg

  Dirty, Naughty, Hands

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• I'm often accused of saying some pretty rotten things about my mother-in-law. But quite honestly, she's only got one major fault - it's called breathing.

  Les Dawson

  Mother, Law, Breathing

  Les Dawson (2012). “Les Dawson's Joke Book”, p.12, Michael O'Mara Books

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• At the economic summit in China, Vladimir Putin is being accused of flirting with the first lady of China. Then again, Putin does have a history of not respecting boundaries.

  Conan O'Brien

  Flirting, Doe, Firsts

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• I've developed a lot of reform proposals myself and been accused of trying to destroy Social Security, when the whole point was to try to save it. I think most people know that Social Security is bankrupt.

  Jim DeMint

  Thinking, People, Trying

  "This Week", abcnews.go.com. September 4, 2011.

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• My driving, I've been accused of not being the best, most safest driver.

  Matt Dillon

  Driving, Being The Best, Drivers

  "Matt Dillon Talks You, Me and Dupree". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. July 13, 2006.

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• I don't know which is worse: to be wrongfully accused or mistakenly understood.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Understood, Knows

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• I am now even more persuaded of the urgent need to study why Socrates was accused. The dislike of philosophy is perennial, and the seeds of the condemnation of Socrates are present at all times, not in the bosoms of pleasure-seekers, who don't give a damn, but in those of high-minded and idealistic persons who do not want to submit their aspirations to examination.

  Allan Bloom

  Philosophy, Giving, Want

  "Giants and Dwarfs". Book by Allan Bloom. Chapter: "Western Civ," p. 19, 1990.

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• It is upsetting to many parents that their teen-agers introduce them to their friends as encyclopedia salesmen who are just passing through ... if they introduce them at all. I have some acquaintances who hover in dark parking lots, enter church separately and crouch in furnace rooms so their teen-agers will not be accused of having parents.

  Erma Bombeck

  Dark, Parent, Upset

  Erma Bombeck, Bil Keane (2011). “Just Wait Till You Have Children of Your Own!”, p.101, Fawcett

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• Jews have been circumcising their boys for thousands of years, and suddenly we are accused of tormenting our children.

  Charlotte Knobloch

  Children, Boys, Years

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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