Quotes on Blame

Everyone's quick to blame the alien.

Author: Aeschylus

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

Author: Dante Alighieri

The older you get, the more you realize you're drifting toward a direction, and sometimes your significant other drifts into an opposite direction. You can't blame anybody for it.

Author: Dido Armstrong

Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.

Author: Bernard Baruch

Parents have to understand: if your kid isn't you, don't blame the kid.

Author: Chastity Bono

I wish I could blame it on the choreography, but it's not a musical. I just had a clumsy moment.

Author: Delta Burke

It's very difficult to photograph an opera. And they messed up on it. It just wasn't there. And I don't blame the Gershwins for taking it away. Of course, if they had gotten the original company to have done it, it would have been very good.

Author: Cab Calloway

Are we to say that any individual who's on steroids that has an angry moment is due to steroids? What about the individual who gets angry and kills someone who's not on steroids? What do we blame it on now?

Author: Jose Canseco

A lot of comedians, when they have a bad gig, will blame everything but themselves. They'll blame the crowd, or the room was wrong, it had a weird vibe, or the promoter promoted a weird atmosphere.

Author: Allan Carr

I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly.

Author: Catherine Catherine II

I think in the wake of Katrina, the Coast Guard may well have been the only entity or agency that came out of that exercise free of fault and free of blame.

Author: Howard Coble

Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.

Author: Mason Cooley

Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos.

Author: Doug Coupland

If at first you don't succeed, blame your parents.

Author: Marcelene Cox

Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist.

Author: Moshe Dayan

Inside a religious body you get sects and hierarchies, inside an information network you get bazaars and cathedrals, it is the same, call them what you like. They survive by pointing the finger of blame at each other.

Author: Mary Douglas

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

Author: Bob Dylan

Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.

Author: Umberto Eco

Now, so, if you want to blame someone for wasteful spending, the Republicans are in the majority.

Author: Chaka Fattah

Luck's always to blame.

Author: Jean Fontaine

In short, Luck's always to blame.

Author: Jean Fontaine

It makes one a better person to have had hardships and to have overcome hardships and not to blame anybody else for your mistakes.

Author: Maureen Forrester

Children usually do not blame themselves for getting lost.

Author: Anna Freud

It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.

Author: Thomas Fuller

If Romeo and Juliet make a tragedy of it nowadays, they have only to blame their own mismanagement, for the world is with them as it has never been before, and all sensible fathers and mothers know it.

Author: Richard Gallienne

I don't blame my own parents for the way I grew up, as quite often there is little choice in these issues.

Author: Peter Garrett

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

Author: Khalil Gibran

The small companies who feel that the majors are a threat, or are predators, will use that as an excuse for their eventual downfall. Don't blame others for your own inadequacies.

Author: Greg Ginn

It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.

Author: Nikolai Gogol

The blame for the 9/11 attacks lays squarely and exclusively with the Al-Qaeda network.

Author: Kay Granger

I praise loudly. I blame softly.

Author: Catherine Great

When your future arrives, will you blame your past?

Author: Robert Half

My parents are really well intended, and I think their way of dealing with things is denial and guilt. Nobody wanted to talk about it. But all I did was blame myself.

Author: Teri Hatcher

The more I use a matrix, the easier I make it to blame someone else.

Author: Mark Hurd

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

Author: John Kennedy

It's easy to keep issuing blame to Republicans or the president.

Author: Nicholas Kristof

I don't have any gnawing guilt over contributing to any unhappiness suffered by my husbands. They were as much to blame as I was.

Author: Hedy Lamarr

I have always been willing to take the blame for the things I have done.

Author: Lillie Langtry

When it was over, I was so happy, I felt like crying. I wanted to win this one for Casey. After what I did in Brooklyn, he could have forgotten about me and who would blame him? But he gave me another chance and I'm grateful.

Author: Don Larsen

I think that fans are always looking for someone to blame. Wouldn't it be nice if they looked in the mirror?

Author: Michael Lewis

If the blame (if there is any) can be shifted from him to me, I shall help him and our cause by taking it. I desire, therefore, that all the responsibility that can be put upon me shall go there and shall remain there.

Author: James Longstreet

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

Author: Don Marquis

I would rather do twenty TV series than go through what I went through under that Rank contract I signed a few years ago for which I blame no one but myself.

Author: Patrick McGoohan

There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.

Author: Golda Meir

I really can't blame anyone but myself, because I didn't have to deliver the album. But when you get caught up in the gas, and you're young, and there's so much helium going on around you, you can't decipher the real end.

Author: Pras Michel

Oh! blame not the bard.

Author: Thomas More

Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.

Author: Dwight Morrow

I started recording because I was always complaining about the records that I was getting of my songs. At least if I did them and messed them up, I wouldn't have anyone else to blame.

Author: Randy Newman

In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.

Author: Robert Orben

Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Author: Satchel Paige

Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.

Author: Saskya Pandita

I've never been a fan of presidents who place blame on their predecessors or who accept credit for events that couldn't have been engineered so soon in their tenure.

Author: Kathleen Parker

Neither blame or praise yourself.

Author: Plutarch

And so we go over the cliff fiscally, and our Republican friends try to pin the blame on discretionary domestic spending, including spending for security. We pass budget resolutions that fall far short.

Author: David Price

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.

Author: Dan Quayle

I don't blame David Stern because a player gets on the court and he doesn't put out competitively. No one can make you play if you don't want to play.

Author: Oscar Robertson

Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.

Author: John Rockefeller

When it comes to pinning blame, pin the tail on the donkeys.

Author: Mitt Romney

Washington, D.C., has a much greater risk than Manchester, N.H. They both need some level of funding, but they ought not to be done per capita. Congress is to blame for some of this.

Author: Warren Rudman

Anglo Saxons: To blame for everything.

Author: John Saul

Mark Winchester has left the band. He's decided that he's tired of the road and just wants to concentrate on his career in Nashville. I don't blame him at all. He'll certainly be missed.

Author: Brian Setzer

They always lost but he didn't blame me because to a gambler, a bad tip is better than no tip at all.

Author: Phil Silvers

Neither praise or blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award. These are the true aims and duties of criticism.

Author: William Simms

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.

Author: Susan Sontag

What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture - and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.

Author: Thomas Sowell

I didn't push Cory. I wanted him to decide if he wanted to go into boxing and he did. Can't blame it on me.

Author: Leon Spinks

Don't blame the messenger because the message is unpleasant.

Author: Kenneth Starr

When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there.

Author: Joe Strummer

If one man is representing India in cricket, then yes, blame that person when things go wrong.

Author: Sachin Tendulkar

I blame myself more so because I hung a curve. If you want to point a finger, point it at me.

Author: David Wells

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

Author: Oscar Wilde

We've had Audrey Hepburn, we've had Twiggy, we've had Veruschka, we've had Kate Moss. I'm trying to figure out why I am to blame for skinniness.

Author: Rachel Zoe