Blameless Quote by Richard Whately

“If a king should fall under such contempt or envy that he could not keep his subjects in their duty but by oppression and…

— Thomas More

“The world had made him extravagant and vain - Extravagance and vanity had made him cold-hearted and selfish. Vanity, while seeking its own guilty…

— Jane Austen

“ What responsibility are you avoiding... He wasn't avoiding responsibility... Though there was one thing he clung to. An excuse, perhaps, like the dead…

— Brandon Sanderson

This was his world, he said to himself, the sad, oppressive world that God had provided for him, and he was responsible to it.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from…

— John Buchanan Robinson

“Perhaps he did not think himself worthy of the King’s Tower, or perhaps he did not care. That was his mistake, the false humility…

— George R.R. Martin

No power or virtue of man could ever have deserved that what has been fated should not have taken place.

— Ammianus Marcellinus

“Right and wrong, good and bad, he regarded as qualities solely of conduct—of acts and omissions; there being no feeling which may not lead,…

— Christopher Hitchens

For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste, or without…

— Victor Hugo

“They sighed: "This leadeth to captivity-- Perchance destruction, ending dark and dire. Yet must we yield to human liberty Its own, e'en though a…

— Orson F. Whitney

“It was considered at the time a striking proof of virtue in the young king that he was sorry for his father's death;but, as…

— Charles Dickens

He decided in favor of life out of sheer spite and malice.

— Patrick Süskind