Daphne du Maurier Quotes

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

A scapegoat remains effective as long as we believe in its guilt.

But I rather thought--I mean, I heard you'd killed Balder the Fair." "I never did," snapped Loki crossly. "Well, no one ever proved I did. What happened to the presumption of innocence? Besides, he was supposed to be invulnerable. Was it my fault that he wasn't?

You can bear anything if it is not your fault.

I do not intend to be made the scapegoat of sacrifice, to be offered up as a victim to society.

The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.

I have been used for a purpose, and there will be a certain tragic occurrence happening if you don't take my testimony and somehow vindicate me so my people don't suffer because of what I have done.

I am innocent of the blood of this just person; see ye to it.

Blame is for God and small children.

The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone else he can blame it on.

The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.

He that wounds himself, even though he has not the right, is not culpable; but if others have wounded him, they are culpable.

The search for someone to blame is always successful.

I get blamed for things I have nothing to do with.

People who lose money always need someone to blame.

I didn't have anything to apologize for.

I've done enough wrong on my own, I don't want to get blamed for something I didn't do.

A guilty party is being sought. Such action is a favorite means of consolation in the face of calamity.

The righteous pays for the sinner.

No one wants to be at the wrong end of finger-pointing.

He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone.

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.

I definitely feel like I'm the scapegoat for a lot of The Process issues.

At the same time I know that it’s not really their fault, at least not completely. I did my part too. I did it on a hundred different days and in a thousand different ways, and I know it. But this makes the anger worse, not better.

...Roland de Chumsfanleigh (it wasn't his fault).