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Is it not monstrous that our seducers should be our accusers?
Better confide and be deceiv'd,
A thousand times, by treacherous foes,
Than once accuse the innocent,
Or let suspicion mar repose.
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.
Smears are not only to be expected but fought. Honor is to be earned, not bought.
How you, O Athenians, have been affected by my accusers, I cannot tell; but I know that they almost made me forget who I was - so persuasively did they speak; and yet they have hardly uttered a word of truth.
The breath Of accusation kills an innocent name, And leaves for lame acquittal the poor life, Which is a mask without it.
People can accuse you of anything but that isn't who you are. It means nothing. Accusations don't make a person, actions do. Make sure your actions show the real you to the world.
You should punish in the same manner those who commit crimes with those who accuse falsely.
Pardons and pleasantnesse are great revenges of slanders.
Guilt requires absolution
Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
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.
My conscience hath a thousand several tongues,
And every tongue brings in a several tale,
And every tale condemns me for a villain.
Perjury, perjury, in the high'st degree;
Murder, stern murder in the dir'st degree,
Throng to the bar, crying all, 'Guilty!, guilty!
Slander is the balm of malignity.
Tattletales, and those who listen to their slander, by my good will, should all be hanged. The former by their tongues, the latter by their ears.
[Lat., Homines qui gestant, quique auscultant crimina, si meo arbitratu liceat, omnes pendeant gestores linguis, auditores auribus.]
Truth is generally the best vindication against slander
Deny everything. Admit nothing. Demand proof
It is the gods who have been accused. They have answered her. If they in turn accuse her, a greater judge and a more excellent court must try the case.
the slander pattern with an open mind.
Conscience is its own readiest accuser.
A self excused is a self accused.
I do not deny the allegation, I deny the allegator.
We all know that a lie needs no other grounds, than the invention of the liar; and to take for granted as truth, all that is alleged against the fame of others, is a species of credulity, that men would blush at on any other subject.
Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense.
Your mother all but accused me of something that is, among my kind, the highest crime a man can commit. There is no trial, only punishment, because it is considered better to let an innocent man die than let a guilty one live. (Page 79.)
Slander-mongers and those who listen to slander, if I had my way, would all be strung up, the talkers by the tongue, the listeners by the ears.
A sane accusation can be refuted. An insane accusation, one that makes no sense on any level, cannot be refuted, cannot even be addressed, because it is insolent nonsense. There is no sober way to defend oneself from the accusation of being a one-eyed one-horned flying purple people eater.
There are reproaches which praise, and praises which defame.
So fruitful is slander in variety of expedients to satiate as well as disguise itself. But if these smoother weapons cut so sore, what shall we say of open and unblushing scandal, subjected to no caution, tied down to no restraints?
Defamation; is an act of impiety.
It is with pleasure I receive reproof, when reproof is due, because no person can be readier to accuse me, than I am to acknowledge an error, when I am guilty of one; nor more desirous of atoning for a crime, when I am sensible of having committed it.
People tend to believe accusations more than denials.
We belittle what we cannot bear. We make figments out of fundamentals, all in the name of preserving our own peculiar fancies. The best way to secure one's own deception is to accuse others of deceit.
How dare you?' Bayar began, but his voice had lost some of its force. 'How dare you come into this sacred hall, flinging accusations?'
'I have not yet made any accusations,' Willo said. 'Perhaps it is our own guilt clamoring in your ears.
That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect,
For slander's mark was ever yet the fair;
The ornament of beauty is suspect,
A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air.
Guilt has always its horrors and solicitudes; and, to make it yet more shameful and detestable, it is doomed often to stand in awe of those to whom nothing could give influence or weight but their power of betraying.
Cheaters often accuse you of cheating. Liars often accuse you of lying. Insecure people often crumble your security. Behavior speaks ... How someone treats you may have nothing to do with you; but can be a reflection of who they are.
No torment in the world is comparable to an accusing conscience.
I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point of invisibility. And I defend because in spite of it all, I find that I love.
There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
Guilt is ever at a loss, and confusion waits upon it; when innocence and bold truth are always ready for expression.
Slander is the tool of cowards.
For enemies carry about slander not in the form in which it took its rise . The scandal of men is everlasting; even then does it survive when you would suppose it to be dead.
When media coverage sets up a binary opposition between 'the accuser' and 'the accused,' there is no longer a victim or even an alleged victim - a flesh and blood person who was harmed by the violent act of another.
He who accuses another of wrong should look well into his own conduct.
It is well not to lend too easy an ear to accusations.
My Lord, it is a very hard sentence. For my part, I am the innocentest person of them all, only I have been sworn against by perjured persons.
In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man.
I have been wrongly accused; and you, ma'am, and everybody else, will now think me wicked."
"We shall think you what you prove yourself to be, my child. Continue to act as a good girl, and you will satisfy us.
Quick-circulating slanders mirth afford; and reputation bleeds in every word.
I have much to say why my reputation should be rescued from the load of false accusation and calumny which has been heaped upon it.
Are you certain of these accusations?" "I would stake my life on them, my lord Emperor." "You already have.
He that easily believes rumors has the principle within him to augment rumors. It is strange to see the ravenous appetite with which some devourers of character and happiness fix upon the sides of the innocent and unfortunate.
Telling the truth is not easy, and false accusations can be made with great ease.
I'm being accused of modesty, a horrible and thoroughly unnatural crime.
I am innocent I say, innocent... Um, what was the question?
No man is so accused as the kinslayer.
Slander is a complication, a comprisal and sum of all wickedness.
Never make a defense or apology before you are accused.
People love as self-recognition what they hate as an accusation.
Inasmuch as you pray with all your soul for the one who has slandered you, so much will God reveal the truth to them who have believed the slander.
Chacun exige d'e" tre innocent, a' tout prix, me" me si, pour cela, il faut accuser le genre humain et le ciel. Everyone insists on his or her innocence, at all costs, even if it means accusing the rest of the human race and heaven.
I do not know, men of Athens, how my accusers affected you; as for me, I was almost carried away in spite of myself, so persuasively did they speak. And yet, hardly anything of what they said is true.
I tell the truth, and truth is the ultimate defense against libel.
I praise loudly. I blame softly.
There are people who indulge themselves in a sort of lying, which they reckon innocent, and which in one sense is so; for it hurtsnobody but themselves. This sort of lying is the spurious offspring of vanity, begotten upon folly.
While it is useful to rebut charges and get your arguments out in circulation, you have to understand that arguments and evidence have little impact on people as long as their feelings tilt them against you.
Traditionally, duos get accused of lots of things.
All men thirst to confess their crimes more than tired beasts thirst for water; but they naturally object to confessing them while other people, who have also committed the same crimes, sit by and laugh at them.
I am accused. I dream of massacres.
I am a garden of black and red agonies. I drink them,
Hating myself, hating and fearing. And now the
world conceives
Its end and runs toward it, arms held out in love.
Of what am I guilty," once exclaimed Antisthenes, "that I should be praised?
These charges that have been made against me, that Prof. Prescott has made, has charged against me, that I denied the atonement in conversation with him, are absolutely false.
My vengeance is my guilt
Lies! All lies! You're all lying against my boys!
If you get a hard word from any one, keep silent, and his own conscience will accuse him.
Compliment inflates.
Blame deflates.
Truth understates.
They whose guilt within their bosom lies, imagine every eye beholds their blame.
Her clear conscience mocked rumour's mendacity, But we are a mob prone to credit sin.
That practis'd falsehood under saintly shew, Deep malice to conceal, couch'd with revenge.
No fury more righteous than that of a sinner accused of the wrong sin.
Suspicion is like the rain. It falls on the just and on the unjust.
I'd prefer you accuse my son, so he can defend his innocence rather than prolong unnecessary guilt. (Spoken by Bracke, told by Eric)
I regret the time and resources needed to undertake this but ... it is right to lay this accusation to rest.
There is a set of harmless liars, frequently to be met with in company, who deal much in the marvellous. Their usual intention is to please and entertain; but as men are most delighted with what they conceive to be the truth, these people mistake the means of pleasing, and incur universal blame.
If you accuse a man of murder, you might be believed, but if you accuse him of eating children for lunch and dinner like Gilles de Rais, no one will take you seriously.
Accuse not nature: she hath done her part; Do thou but thine.
Presumptions of guilt or innocence may sometimes be strengthened or weakened by the place of birth and kind of education and associates a man has grown up with, and good character may at times interpose, and justly save, under suspicion, one who is accused of crime on slight circumstances.
If any speak ill of thee, fly home to thy own conscience and examine thy heart. If thou art guilty, it is a just correction; if not guilty, it is a fair instruction.
Injuries accompanied with insults are never forgiven: all men, on these occasions, are good haters, and lay out their revenge at compound interest.
Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
Ingratitude never so thoroughly pierces the human breast as when it proceeds from those in whose behalf we have been guilty of transgressions.
Where guilty is, rage and courage doth abound.
I was accused of every monstrous vice by public rumour and private rancour; my name, which had been a knightly or noble one, was tainted. I felt that, if what was whispered, and muttered, and murmured, was true, I was unfit for England; if false, England was unfit for me.
The slanders of the pen pierce to the heart; they rankle longest in the noblest spirits; they dwell ever present in the mind and render it morbidly sensitive to the most trifling collision.
Who now accuses? Who now condemns? Christ has died, yes rather, has risen again.
He that once deceives is ever suspected.
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
We are accused here of polygamy, and actions the most indelicate, obscene, and disgusting, such that none but a corrupt and depraved heart could have contrived. These things are too outrageous to admit to belief ...