Michael Caine Quotes

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

I am responsible but not guilty!

Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.

it’s very easy to blame people.

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

The absent partie is still faultie.

For to accuse requires less eloquence, such is man's nature, than to excuse; and condemnation, than absolution, more resembles justice.

I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did. I will not accept responsibility for that which I did not do.

I am called here to answer before you, but I hear no things laid to my charge.

There has been the biggest black cloud following me around. People believe it's all my fault that Steve is not here. He has always had an open door, and he doesn't choose to do this any more.

A lot of times in sport if you try to tell the truth it seems like an excuse.

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

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

If I've done anything wrong, I believe it's his fault.

Men are only too clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.

One of the strongest forms of rhetoric in our society is the rhetoric of blame.

Oust me if you want, but if I stepped down, I would be admitting guilt.

Players often look for alibis - it's easy to give the blame to others.

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

We all have some proper noun to blame.

[P]erhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification.

I would be able to defend my actions, no matter what [evidence] they had on me.

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?

there's plenty of blame to go around.

Everyone has to blame something for the way the world is.