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Quotes About Accused

I've been accused, many times, as a writer/director, of my pace being too leisurely and too long.
~ Billy Bob Thornton
Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.
~ Dan Quayle
My driving, I've been accused of not being the best, most safest driver.
~ Matt Dillon
The justice system in the West has a lot of problems," Poe said, "but at least there are rules. You have basic rights as the accused. You have your day in court. You don't have any rights when you're accused on the Internet. And the consequences are worse. It's worldwide forever.
~ Jon Ronson
The court is most merciful when the accused is most rich.
~ Proverb
I don't think I was ever particularly mean. I can certainly think of some idiotic exchanges I've had. I was accused of destroying pop music, like Wagner destroyed opera - a guy in Germany started ranting that at me.
~ Elvis Costello
But I'm not trying to convince anybody how to vote or how to live. Nobody's ever successfully accused me of being realistic.
~ Frank Miller
Sometimes in L.A., we get accused of being superficial. I feel like Portland's the opposite, in that there's a greater depth of character, and sense of self.
~ Ruben Fleischer
Doctor Jones, we're all vulnerable to vicious rumors. I seem to remember that in Honduras you were accused of being a grave robber rather than an archaeologist. Indy: Well, the newspapers greatly exaggerated the incident.
~ James Kahn
During its retransmission dispute, CBS pulled its signal off of certain cable TV systems - and also blocked all Time Warner broadband customers from accessing CBS's Web-based content, even outside the territory of dispute. This is precisely the kind of content-blocking broadband providers are so often accused of but aren't actually doing.
~ Michael O'Rielly
'John Doe' is typically used in a warrant when the accused is known by an alias or by a physical description.
~ Bill Dedman
Trump critics such as myself have been accused of living in a bubble. On the contrary, it is Trump's supporters in the 1 percent who breathed their own fumes.
~ Richard Cohen
I have been accused of allegedly giving up my free-market principles in supporting some of Donald Trump's proposed policies.
~ Lawrence Kudlow
The people who hanged Christ never, to do them justice, accused him of being a bore - on the contrary, they thought him too dynamic to be safe. It has been left for later generations to muffle up that shattering personality and surround him with an atmosphere of tedium.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
the activity of posing scientific questions prematurely is the most useful thing of which philosophy can be accused.
~ Rebecca Goldstein
Ayya! Until I arrived at your palace I was a woman whose faculties for speech and hearing were fine. I have been accused by many as being talkative but I was rendered speechless by the hearty welcome
~ Kalki
Jefferson the deist was accused of being an atheist and even a Muslim.
~ Karen Armstrong
In a democratic country, when a man is accused, he's accused from a document issued by the public attorney.
~ Jacques Verges
Every man of any education would rather be called a rascal, than accused of deficiency in the graces.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
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.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Our party has been accused of fooling the public by calling tax increases 'revenue enhancement'. Not so. No one was fooled
~ Dan Quayle
People have accused me of being in favor of globalization. This is equivalent to accusing me of being in favor of the sun rising in the morning.
~ Clare Short
You're going to be accused of every high crime and low misdemeanor there is.
~ Willie Brown
Compurgator, one that under oath vouches for the character or conduct of an accused person. From Webster's.—SDB
~ William Gurnall