Blame
Definition: Feel or declare that (someone or something) is responsible for a fault or wrong. Responsibility for a fault or wrong.
Number of Quotes: 19
Consultants eventually leave, which makes them excellent scapegoats for major management blunders.
Scott Adams
To accuse is so easy that it is infamous to do so where proof is impossible.
Zoë Akins
It was partially my fault that we got divorced ... I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.
Woody Allen
This is a story about four people: Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody. There was an important job to be
done, and Everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but
Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought Anybody could do it.
Nobody realized Everybody wouldn't do it. In the end, Everybody blamed Somebody when actually Nobody asked Anybody.
Financial Times
Anonymous
By blaming others, we fail to find the real solutions to our problems and we do not carry out our own responsibilities.
Jeb Bush
I praise loudly, I blame softly.
Catherine
Everyone threw the blame on me ... they nearly always do. I suppose ... they think I shall be able to bear it best.
Winston Churchill
Things that are done, it is needless to speak about ... things that are past, it is needless to blame.
Confucius
Blameless people are always the most exasperating.
George Eliot
An expert is someone called in at the last minute to share the blame.
Sam Ewing
I find that pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.
Thomas Jefferson
He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the faultfinding of men.
Thomas à Kempis
The devil is always blaming someone.
Bricks of blame pave the floor of hell.
Brendan Kennelly
They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.
William Penn
Some praise at morning what they blame at night; But always think the last opinion right.
Alexander Pope
If we had no faults, we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.
François de La Rochefoucauld
When one does nothing, one believes oneself responsible for everything.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Underneath runs the main current of preoccupation, which is keeping one's nose clean at all times. This means
that when things go wrong you have to pass the blame along the line, like pass-the-parcel, till the music stops.
Tom Stoppard
It is easy to find fault, if one has that disposition. There was once a man who, not being able to
find any other fault with his coal, complained that there were too many prehistoric toads in it.
Mark Twain
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