Pride is not a word or sentiment I can ascribe to anything I have done or do. As far as regret, it is a luxury I can not afford. Anything I did, that was bad or wrong or regretful, I stand accused, I am guilty and I'm ready to serve my time.
I'm inclined to reserve all judgement, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men.
But I'm not trying to convince anybody how to vote or how to live. Nobody's ever successfully accused me of being realistic.
A few years ago I lost one of my dearest friends. He died at age 53 - heart attack. David is gone, but he was one of my very special friends. I used to say of David that if I was stuck in a foreign jail somewhere accused unduly and if they would allow me one phone call, I would call David. Why? He would come and get me. That's a friend. Somebody who would come and get you.
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.
No fury more righteous than that of a sinner accused of the wrong sin.
I've been accused of being too flexible, too willing to mold myself to men, and that's something I'm constantly working on.
Rick Perry has now accused Mitt Romney of hiring illegal aliens to work on his hair.
Nobody likes to be accused of a virtue.
If I'd done a quarter of the things of which I'm accused, I'd be pickled in alcohol, I'd be a registered drug addict and would have sired half the children in the world's cricket-playing countries
Specific protection must be granted to human rights defenders and whistleblowers who have in some contexts been accused of being unpatriotic, whereas they perform, in reality, a democratic service to their countries and to the enjoyment of human rights of their compatriots.
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.
no one has ever accused Texas of being in the vanguard of social progress. This is the most macho state in the U. S. of A. By lore, legend, and fact, Texas is 'hell' on women and horses.
If O. J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.
I can only say I wish I had slept with everyone I am accused of.
There is scarcely anything more important in the government of men than the exact - I will ever say pedantic - observance of the regular forms by which the guilt or innocence of accused persons is determined.
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.
An innocent man, if accused, can be acquitted; a guilty man, unless accused, cannot be condemned. It is, however, more advantageous to absolve an innocent than not to prosecute a guilty man.
A rule that may serve for a statesman, a courtier, or a lovernever make a defence or an apology before you be accused.
I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I will never put my hand in your pockets