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Quotes about Blame


Condemn you me for that the duke did love me?
So may you blame some fair and crystal river
For that some melancholic, distracted man
Hath drown'd himself in 't.

John Webster

In part to blame is she,
Which hath without consent bin only tride:
He comes to neere that comes to be denide.

Sir Thomas Overbury

'T is not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess.

John Selden

Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail
Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt,
Dispraise, or blame,--nothing but well and fair,
And what may quiet us in a death so noble.

John Milton

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

Alexander Pope

A faultless body and a blameless mind.

Alexander Pope

Let this great maxim be my virtue's guide,--
In part she is to blame that has been tried:
He comes too near that comes to be denied.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

A creature not too bright or good
For human nature's daily food;
For transient sorrows, simple wiles,
Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears, and smiles.

William Wordsworth

To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost
Which blamed the living man.

Matthew Arnold

And the best and the worst of this is
That neither is most to blame,
If you have forgotten my kisses
And I have forgotten your name.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

And only the Master shall praise us, and only the Master shall blame;
And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame;
But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star,
Shall draw the Thing as he sees It, for the God of Things as They Are!

Rudyard Kipling

A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, "Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?" holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. "Yet," added he, "none of you can tell where it pinches me."

Plutarch

The wretched souls of those who lived
Without or praise or blame.

Dante Alighieri

A man who is ungrateful is often less to blame than his benefactor.

François, duc de La Rochefoucauld

People always blame art literature drama for their own evil. Or other people’s. Art only imitates life.

You must never blame yourself for good intentions

Businesses may come and go, but religion will last forever, for in no other endeavor does the consumer blame himself for product failure.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has the right to blame us.

Oscar Wilde

Businesses may come and go, but religion will last forever, for in no other endeavor does the consumer blame himself for product failure.

When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame.

US Vice President J. Danforth Quayle

When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame.

Dan Quayle

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

Kahlil Gibran

It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.

Johan Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on.

Oscar Levant

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

Erica Jong

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