Quotes About Blame

You want an excuse for your failure and so you found someone to blame. If you survived, you would always be dirt, ground under someone else's boot.

She'd been around long enough to know that it was a rare man who fully accepted responsibility for his actions, who didn't offer any excuses.

Blame is just a shame game.

Un universo di pensieri attraversò in un secondo la mente di Lucile: 'Forse è lui?' si disse, 'che ha fatto prigioniero Gaston, Mio Dio, quanti francesi avrà ucciso? Quante lacrime saranno state versate a causa sua? é anche vero che se la guerra fosse andata diversamente oggi sarebbe Gaston a entrare da padrone in una casa tedesca. è la guerra, non è colpa di questo ragazzo.

It's not my fault! It can't make any difference, can it? You understand nothing. You are a destroyer, a black spiteful destroyer. You are the sort of person who goes around in a dream smashing things . . . You aren't really here at all.

You've got to see me , Martin. I'm to blame. I've never been quite and entirely myself with you. The situation didn't let me be. The untruthfulness infected everything. I must break out a little? Do you see at all?

Oh, all right, perhaps it wasn't all your fault, I was just doomed from the start.

one often feels guilt not because one has sinned but because one has been accused!

Guilt feelings so often arise from accusations rather than from crimes.

She's nothing to do with my shit, but fuck it, none of us are saints and scapegoats are always handy.

It was all that vain, egotistical insincerity of self-reproach. By blaming ourselves we take away the right of others to do the same

I'm being accused of modesty, a horrible and thoroughly unnatural crime.

Tennyson once wrote: 'He is all fault who has no fault at all.

But, tell me, how would you get us out of our present mess?" "Your present mess. I had nothing to do with it." "Consider the question suitably modified.

Como la aguja de una brújula apunta siempre al norte, así el dedo acusador de un hombre apunta siempre a una mujer

Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.

No blame should attach to telling the truth.

He who excuses himself accuses himself. (Qui s'excuse, s'accuse.)

Whoever profits by the crime is guilty of it.

Vilify! Vilify! Some of it will always stick.

We frequently hear of people dying from too much drinking. That this happens is a matter of record. But the blame almost always is placed on whisky. Why this should be I never could understand. You can die from drinking too much of anything - coffee, water, milk, soft drinks and all such stuff as that. And so long as the presence of death lurks with anyone who goes through the simple act of swallowing, I will make mine whisky.

And oftentimes, excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse, - As patches, set upon a little breach, Discredit more in hiding of the fault Than did the fault before it was so patched.

There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots.

He who is shipwrecked the second time cannot lay the blame on Neptune.