John Dryden Quotes

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

With hindsight, it is always easy to blame everyone else.

Condemn the fault and not the actor of it?

Myrnin was silent for a beat, and then he said, "Bob would be very disappointed in you.

There's nothing wrong with blame, if blame is due.

Many people have been pontificating, and patronizing, and moralizing, and scapegoating, saying you Greeks, you are the problem. I would say we Greeks have a problem. We are not the problem.

If you could see the instructions that I gave Jerry to begin with, I'd be embarrassed.

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

When I make an error, it's a very bad day in my house.

How dare you put yourself in that position where you are the moral judge?

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

That, Madam, is my misfortune, not my fault.

It’s very difficult to come to grips with how we screwed this up, but we screwed this up.

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

it’s very easy to blame people.

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

The worst thing that can happen to you is if you don't take responsibility for what you did wrong.

If you do a mistake, I think you should get punished.

I don't need people shouting at me to tell me what I did wrong.

There is an expectation that we can talk about sins but no one must be identified as a sinner.

The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistakes, as if my maidenhood were responsible for my ignorance. Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.

Everybody likes to see somebody else get caught for the vices practiced by themselves.

Whoever gives advice to a sick person acquires a feeling of superiority over him, whether the advice be accepted or rejected.

If you never condemned you would never need to forgive.

Personally, I'm tired of hearing the whole have-you-no-decency routine from people who have made quite clear that they possess none themselves.