I'm accused of cleverness as if it were a sin. She is merely clever, they say.
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.
One is either judge or accused. The judge sits, the accused stands. Live on your feet.
I'm sick of being self-referential. I don't want to do any more songs that can be accused of being personal.
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.
We resent being faced with facts we'd prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven't.
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.
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.
Fluency in English is something that I'm often not accused of.
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 man divorcing would never be accused of choosing career over children.
[A] man and still more the woman, who can be accused either of doing "what nobody does," or of not doing "what everybody does," is the subject of as much depreciatory remark as if he or she had committed some grave moral delinquency.
Malice, in its false witness, promotes its tale with so cunning a confusion, so mingles truths with falsehoods, surmises with certainties, causes of no moment with matters capital, that the accused can absolutely neither grant nor deny, plead innocen.
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.
Every man of any education would rather be called a rascal, than accused of deficiency in the graces.
This day I ceased to plead. I was no longer capable of lamentation. On the contrary, I felt very strong. I was the accuser, God the accused.
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.
For decades engineers have stood accused that their buildings do not have any cultural value. We have attempted to liberate engineering of this accusation.
Many people have accused me of having a romantic view, whereas I personally I feel sorry for those who have lost romance in their lives.
I've been accused of lacking compassion. But that just shows I'm not without compassion.