Quotes About Accusation

If we are living according to what we believe, we may be falsely accused.

So are you the one who killed those cockwombles?" "No.

That's Esperanza Diaz. A professional wrestler falsely accused of murder." Grace turned. "Little Pocahontas," she said. "Excuse me?" Grace pointed at the photograph. "Her wrestling name. It was Little Pocahontas.

Old Mr. Bob Ewell accused him of rapin' his girl an' had him arrested an' put in jail—

he won an acquittal for a colored boy on a rape charge.

Guilty . . . guilty . . . guilty . . . guilty . . .

I deny having taken part in such a thing.

What the world needs is a set villain that people can point at and say, "It's all your fault!

I will say again that I have never, and would never, harm a child. It sickens me that people have written untrue things about me.

The Duke lacrosse case put North Carolina in a bad light, internationally. It was important that we go in and right the wrongs of that case, and I think we did.

Look, in 1800 the sainted Thomas Jefferson arranged to hire a notorious slanderer named James Callender, who worked as a writer at a Republican newspaper in Richmond, Va. Read some of what he wrote about John Adams. This was a personal slander.

I have been accused of being a traitor, and I have been accused of not supporting the military. Nothing could be further from the truth.

If my son had a baseless accusation made against him at a university, and it was making his life there miserable, I would suggest he transfer or take courses online.

Pero no es difícil, varones, huir de la muerte; muy más difícil es huir de la maldad, que corre más veloz que la muerte. Yo ahora, por tardo y por viejo, seguramente, he sido cogido por lo más lento, mientras que mis acusadores, por hábiles y por vivos, han sido cogidos por lo más veloz: por la maldad

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

I've been accused my whole life of being "too sensitive". This actually kind of pisses me off, but maybe that's just because I'm too sensitive.

Hugo Dockerill was the first and only letter-recipient to remain cheerful in the face of his predicament, and certainly the first to demonstrate a belief that all the world's problems could be solved if only decent people sat down at a table together and set things straight. If he objected to being accused of murder, he concealed it well.

It is not a pleasant thing, to be accused of something one has not done. One ought to be able to brush the untruths aside, but somehow they take hold of the mind and cause a spectral form of guilt--like a ghost in the head, or in the conscience! Someone is certain that you have done this terrible thing, and so you start to feel as if you have, even though you know you have not. I begin to understand, Georges, why people confess to crimes of which they are innocent.

Rowly's son, a murderer? Preposterous! He's the son of Rowland McCrodden! If you were the son of a man like that, Catchpool, would you take up murder as a way of passing the time?

I have spent my life working for the greater good and the protection of the innocent and--yes!--the wrongly accused. That group includes you, monsieur. Also, today, it includes Hercule Poirot. I too am wrongly accused.

I have always thought that if Father ever runs out of guilty people to send to the gallows, he'll turn his attentions to the innocent and pretend they're guilty--both in court and in his own mind.

Monsieur, I have not, in all my years, met a father who sought to have his son condemned to death for a murder he did not commit.

I am innocent. I have not killed anybody. I am the least violently inclined person I have ever met.

Once while we were watching the denouement scene of a David Suchet Poirot episode, he [my husband] said irritably, 'Why do they all just sit there and let Poirot accuse them of stuff? I'd get up and walk out.