Accused Quotes - Page 2

• With various people complaining about "price gouging?... economist Walter Williams has coined a new term: "Tax gouging." But government is never accused of either "greed" or "gouging" ? not even when they bulldoze people's homes in order to turn.

  Thomas Sowell

  Home, Government, Order

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• Types really don't matter. I have been accused of preferring blondes. But I have known some mighty attractive redheads, brunettes, and yes, women with grey hair. Age, height, weight haven't anything to do with glamour.

  Clark Gable

  Hair, Age, Weight

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Never make a defense or apology before you are accused.

  Charles I of England

  Apology, Defense, Politics

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• Every man of any education would rather be called a rascal, than accused of deficiency in the graces.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Men, Grace, Deficiency

  1776 Remark, May. Quoted in James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.3.

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• I've been accused of being aloof. I'm not. I'm just wary.

  Paul Newman

  Aloof

  "Paul and Joanne: A Biography of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward". Book by Joe Morella and Edward Z. Epstein, 1988.

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• No one trusts me any more. I spent half the movie Maigret (1988) (TV) arguing with people and I was accused of causing big on-set rows. But what they won't tell you is I fought for Simeneon. I fought for the maintenance of quality. I don't believe in lyin.

  Richard Harris

  Believe, People, Quality

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• The truth is, one can work for another ten years and be playing parts, pushing yourself as hard as you can, and you are still accused of that. You're still tainted with that brush. I'm not called Jude Law, I have three names; I'm called 'Hunk Jude Law'.

  Jude Law

  Years, Law, Names

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Now that I have called you on your false accusation, you are using additional smear tactics.

  George Soros

  Fake People, Smear Campaigns, Tactics

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• Interesting characters are troubled characters. The only problem I've had in my business is very few people - unfortunately, very vocal - confusing the difficult role that I play with me. I play these guys, but I'm not like them. I've been accused of being difficult to work with.

  Val Kilmer

  Character, Play, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm sick of being accused of gold-digging. It just so happens I get turned on by liver spots.

  Anna Nicole Smith

  Sick, Gold, Digging

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've been accused of deliberately hamming up my accent and dropping letters, but that's just how I speak - I used to be a chav.

  Kate Nash

  Letters, Speak, Dropping

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• I am disappointed to find myself accused in some papers of supplying the offending sweets, particularly as I am a fruit pastille man.

  Alastair Cook

  Sweet, Men, Offending

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• I'm always being accused of being a Hollywood Republican, but I'm not! I have just as many Democratic ideas as Republican ones. If they could build three fewer bombs every month and give the money to foster care, that would be great.

  Bruce Willis

  Ideas, Giving, Hollywood

  "'I'm A Democrat', Insists Willis". www.contactmusic.com. September 19, 2006.

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• The last thing I would have ever expected to happen to me in my life would be that, in fact, I would be accused of doing something wrong and maybe even something criminal.

  Kenneth Lay

  Criminals, Would Be, Lasts

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• As for me, even though I have been accused of anti-Semitism countless times, no one has ever heard me make anti-Semitic statements or engage in anti-Semitic behavior.

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

  Engagement, Behavior, Anti Semitic

  "The veil? It protects us from ugly women" by Adar Primor, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2002.

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• To keep the record straight, it wasn't always John and Yoko. We've all accused one another of various business things; we tend to be pretty paranoid by now, as you can imagine. There's a lot of money involved.

  Paul McCartney

  Money, Records, Imagine

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• Yeah, I've always been accused of having a sense of mischief and I'm very flattered that you say you can see it in the roles I play, because I think that's important, even if I do play intense characters, like especially Christine Cagney.

  Sharon Gless

  Character, Thinking, Play

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• Good Christian people, I am come hither to die, for according to the law, and by the law I am judged to die, and therefore I will speak nothing against it. I am come hither to accuse no man, nor to speak anything of that, whereof I am accused and condemned to die.

  Anne Boleyn

  Christian, Men, Law

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• 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

  Morning, Accusing Me, People

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• Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.

  Dan Quayle

  Way, Vote, Republican

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• If one seeks to analyze experiences and reactions to the first postwar years, I hope one may say without being accused of bias that it is easier for the victor than for the vanquished to advocate peace.

  Gustav Stresemann

  Peace, Years, Prejudice

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• It's not fair that the accused is not protected from adverse publicity whilst the accuser is guaranteed anonymity, whatever the verdict.

  Jonathan King

  Publicity, Adverse, Protected

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• When I was in college I was accused of being a goody two-shoes. But every goody two-shoes has a bad side.

  Elizabeth Banks

  College, Shoes, Two

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• Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.

  Lionel Trilling

  Neurosis, Judgment, Ends

  "Partisan Review: 50th Anniversary Edition", ed. William Philips, 1985.

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• The only thing I think I can be accused of about paparazzi is being really naive. I didnt think about it coming along with the job and I never, during my three years at drama school, fantasized about one bit of it.

  Paul Bettany

  Jobs, Drama, School

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