quotations about blame
Blame the mirror if your face is ugly.
CHINESE PROVERB
If at first you don't succeed, blame your parents.
MARCELENE COX
attributed, I Come First
You could blame it on yourself
Blame it on me but don't blame it on love
HALL & OATES
"Don't Blame It on Love"
We go to the past to lay the blame - since the past can't argue. We go to our past selves to account for our present miseries.
GLEN DUNCAN
Love Remains
It's too easy to criticize a man when he's out of favour, and to make him shoulder the blame for everybody else's mistakes.
LEO TOLSTOY
War and Peace
Fault always lies in the same place, my fine babies: with him weak enough to lay blame.
STEPHEN KING
The Drawing of the Three
Blame keeps our happiness contingent on someone else. Blame is the wall between victimization and recovery.
VICTORIA SECUNDA
When You and Your Mother Can't Be Friends
As opposed to authentic emotional reactions like sadness, anger, and fear, blame is a defensive stance that's a deep and murky swamp. When you stumble into it, you become mired and lose control over your own health.
RICK FOSTER & GREG HICKS
Choosing Brilliant Health
There's a man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.
SAMUEL BECKETT
Waiting for Godot
Blame rings in the ears like the crack of a bell long after it has been silenced.
DON H. POLSTON
There Can Be a New You
The absent always bear the blame.
DUTCH PROVERB
And I blame you
For everything you do
For all the scars I bare
And breathing all my air
For everything I'll ever do
I blame you
GODSMACK
"I Blame You"
Blame is the lazy man's wages.
DANISH PROVERB
We need not hesitate to blame as occasion may require; but it is proper to be cautious how we deal out reproof where the necessity of the case does not fully warrant it.
G. CRABB
attributed, Day's Collacon
Never blame without reason, and then you will be always minded.
THOMAS WILSON
Maxims of Piety and of Christianity
They’d blame a castoff just for breathing. You could be good as gold and they’d still blame you.
PAOLO BACIGALUPI
The Drowned Cities
Rationally speaking, blaming one's behavior on alcohol or drugs is like blaming the ladder by which you descended into a pit, or the staircase that took you down to a cellar, for what you found there.
GRAHAM JOYCE
Some Kind of Fairy Tale
I blame it on the rain. Milli Vanilli was ahead of their time.
JAROD KINTZ
The Titanic Would Never Have Sunk If It Were Made Out of a Sink
How oft review; each finding, like a friend,
Something to blame, and something to commend.
ALEXANDER POPE
Epistle to Mr. Jervas
Some blame themselves to extort the praise of contradiction from others.
TRYON EDWARDS
The World's Laconics