Faults Quotes
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It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others, and to forget his own. (Quote by - Cicero)
Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that. (Quote by - Bob Edwards)
Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours. (Quote by - Phillips Brooks)
Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes. (Quote by - John Ruskin)
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults. (Quote by - Charles Kingsley)
Don't tell your friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you. (Quote by - Logan Pearsall Smith)
Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends. (Quote by - Henry Brooks Adams)
He who excuses himself, accuses himself. (Quote by - Gabriel Meurier)
The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again. (Quote by - Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing. (Quote by - Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalties, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so great it makes their faults seem insignificant. (Quote by - Charles A. Cerami)
I think people who have faults are a lot more interesting than people who are perfect. (Quote by - Spike Lee)
That no one, no one at all, should try to search into himself! But the wallet of the person in front is carefully kept in view. (Quote by - Persius)
You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder. (Quote by - Xi Zhi)
Only great men may have great faults. (Quote by - French proverb)
I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them. (Quote by - Samuel Beckett)
I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still. (Quote by - e. e. cummings)
If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others. (Quote by - Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent, it seldom has justice enough to accuse. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness. (Quote by - La Rochefoucauld)
Pride is the mask of one's own faults. (Quote by - Jewish proverb)
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues. (Quote by - Robert Bulwer-Lytton)
Men still had faults, and men will have them still; He that hath none, and lives as angels do, Must be an angel. (Quote by - Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscomon)
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives. (Quote by - Sidonie Gabrielle Colette)
The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity. (Quote by - Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces. (Quote by - Isaac D'Israeli)
Those see nothing but faults that seek for nothing else. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)
However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in Paradise. Love your life. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
The essence of a man is found in his faults. (Quote by - Francis Picabia)
It's easy to see the faults in people I know; it's hardest to see the good. Especially when the good isn't there. (Quote by - Will Cuppy)
Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves. (Quote by - Ramsey Clark)
Faults are beauties in a lover's eye. (Quote by - Theocritus)
However, yes, especially as one gets older, you know, you really hope that your music will become more generally available, even though some of the performances might be riddled with faults. (Quote by - John Eaton)
Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself; for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven. (Quote by - Giraldus Cambrensis)
Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that. (Quote by - Arthur Miller)
Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same. (Quote by - Voltaire)
A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little "personal characteristics." (Quote by - Helen Rowland)
The Pilgrim and the Puritan whom we honor tonight were men who did a great deal of work in the world. They had their faults and their - shortcomings, but they were not slothful in business and they were most fervent in spirit. (Quote by - Henry Cabot Lodge)
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them. (Quote by - Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, it would make him pull his hat over his eyes. (Quote by - Gaelic proverb)
I tolerate my faults but not at all other people's. (Quote by - Camille Claudel)
They were all like one another as halfpence are, every one fault seeming monstrous till his fellow-fault came to match it. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
A husband without faults is a dangerous observer. (Quote by - George Savile)
We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues. (Quote by - Mason Cooley)
All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor. (Quote by - Walt Whitman)
Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities. (Quote by - Isaac D'Israeli)
It is tragic that the Fuehrer should have the whole nation behind him with the single exception of the Army generals. In my opinion it is only by action that they can now atone for their faults of lack of character and discipline. (Quote by - Alfred Jodl)
We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones. (Quote by - Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want. (Quote by - Ferdinand Mount)
Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind. (Quote by - Matthew Prior)
Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races. (Quote by - Ethel Waters)
Her new bark is worse than ten times her old bite. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
I may have faults, but being wrong ain't one of them. (Quote by - Jimmy Hoffa)
He has no fault except that he has no fault. (Quote by - Pliny the Younger)
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)
Chide him for faults, and do it reverently, When you perceive his blood inclined to mirth, But, being moody, give him time and scope, Till that his passions, like a whale on ground, Confound themselves with working. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Learn to know every man under you, get under his skin, know his faults. Then cater to him - with kindness or roughness as his case may demand. (Quote by - John McGraw)
I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful. (Quote by - Spike Lee)
We all have faults, and mine is being wicked. (Quote by - James Thurber)
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them. (Quote by - Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities. (Quote by - Bernard Berenson)
People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues. (Quote by - Elizabeth Gaskell )
A brother who recognizes that we have shortcomings, we, in the struggle, have faults, and that he wanted to reconcile differences. (Quote by - Louis Farrakhan)
Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home. (Quote by - Plautus)
The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms. (Quote by - James F. Cooper)
Who'd bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition? (Quote by - Juvenal)
We are people with all the hopes, dreams, passions, and faults of everyone else. Eighty percent of us are born into families with no history of dwarfism. (Quote by - Billy Barty)
Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties. (Quote by - Gene Tierney)
Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other's faults. (Quote by - Richard Armour)
Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect? (Quote by - Laurence J. Peter)
Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings. (Quote by - Laurence J. Peter)
The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend. (Quote by - Agnes de Mille)
Bad men excuse their faults, good men will leave them. (Quote by - Ben Jonson)
Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others. (Quote by - Francois Fenelon)
I may have many faults, but being wrong ain't one of them. (Quote by - Jimmy Hoffa)
Be England what she will, With all her faults, she is my country still. (Quote by - Charles Churchill)
What men and women need is encouragement. ... Instead of always harping on a man's faults, tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut of bad habits. (Quote by - Eleanor H. Porter)
The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Love blinds us to faults, hatred to virtues. (Quote by - Moses Ibn Ezra)
Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for. (Quote by - Walter Savage Landor)
We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection. (Quote by - Jean Paul)
Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs. (Quote by - Catullus)
We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves. (Quote by - Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power. (Quote by - Norman Thomas)
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself. (Quote by - Johannes Tauler)
I mean, for all of his faults and the troubles in his marriage, Bill Clinton is still married to a girl he met in the library 25 years ago at school. Can we say that about many of our other leaders today in America, including on the right wing? (Quote by - Paul Begala)
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones. (Quote by - Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
Do you wish to find out a person's weak points? Note the failings he has the quickest eye for in others. They may not be the very failings he is himself conscious of; but they will be their next-door neighbors. No man keeps such a jealous lookout as a rival. (Quote by - A.W. Hare and J.C. Hare)
If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody. (Quote by - Lawrence G. Lovasik)
We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest. (Quote by - Horace)
I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would take care of. (Quote by - Kate Smith)
While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one. (Quote by - Horace)
Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed. (Quote by - Hippocrates)
We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones. (Quote by - Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
There's something so accessible about heroes who have faults. (Quote by - Laura Dern)
Just as the British subject loves England despite her faults, so we must insist that all Germans who were part of the old Germany and helped shape her, recognize the greatness and worthiness of present-day Germany. (Quote by - Gustav Stresemann)
Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation. (Quote by - Herman Melville)
Unless you bear with the faults of a friend you betray your own. (Quote by - Publilius Syrus)
I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
The first time you meet Winston [Churchill] you see all his faults and the rest of your life you spend in discovering his virtues. (Quote by - Lady Constance Lytton)
Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours. (Quote by - Phillips Brooks)
Then farewell, Horace; whom I hated so, Not for thy faults, but mine. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on. (Quote by - Les Brown)
Of all the things I could know, my own faults and weaknesses are pretty much the most important. (Quote by - Simon Travaglia)
Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults. (Quote by - Lord Chesterfield)
Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them. (Quote by - Jean de La Fontaine )
Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel. (Quote by - Doris Lessing)
People accuse me of being Methody, but I'm not at all. The one thing I don't want people to see is me. I don't want them to be able to recognize my faults and failures and qualities, and I won't use those things to spark off emotions or to illustrate. (Quote by - Kristin Scott Thomas)
The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes. (Quote by - Madame de Stael)
My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private. (Quote by - Solomon Ibn Gabirol)
I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others. (Quote by - Mohandas Gandhi)
To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject. (Quote by - Georg C. Lichtenberg)
Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him. (Quote by - Gustav Stresemann)
Thou hast no faults, or I no faults can spy; Thou art all beauty, or all blindness I. (Quote by - Christopher Codrington)
I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred. (Quote by - Frank Langella)
Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car. (Quote by - Edward de Bono)
Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual, fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. (Quote by - Bible)
I like a man with faults, especially when he knows it. To err is human (Quote by - I'm uncomfortable around gods. (Quote by - Hugh Prather)
Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large. (Quote by - Plutarch)
Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin. (Quote by - Henri Frederic Amiel)
The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults. (Quote by - Alexis de Tocqueville)
Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature. (Quote by - Lord Melbourne)
All the faults of the age come from Christianity and journalism. Christianity, of course, but why journalism? (Quote by - Frank Harris)
We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment. (Quote by - George Eliot)
The glorious fault of angels and of gods. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones. (Quote by - Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues. (Quote by - Hugh Prather)
Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth; If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt. (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit. (Quote by - Marcus Valerius Martial)
We make mistakes, we have our faults, and God knows some of us have more than our share, but when danger threatens and duty calls, we go smiling to our own funeral. (Quote by - James Larkin)
Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults. (Quote by - Cicero)
And you yourself always be seated at the middle fo the high table that your presence as lord or lady may appear openly to all, and that you may plainly see on either side all the service and all the faults. (Quote by - Robert Grosseteste)
You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife? (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
We keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we at last come to look upon them as virtues. (Quote by - Heinrich Heine)
My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults. (Quote by - Adam Weishaupt)
People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it. (Quote by - Sparky Anderson)
It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one. (Quote by - Jerome K. Jerome)
The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them. (Quote by - Confucius)
Every man has his faults; I have and so have you - you will allow me to say so! (Quote by - Clara Schumann)
It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort. (Quote by - Quintilian)
I work for him despite his faults and he lets me work for him despite my deficiencies. (Quote by - Bill Moyers)
The faultfinder will find faults even in paradise. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense. (Quote by - Charles Churchill)
When I was playing the game we never had the benefit of TV or video to analyse our techniques or look at faults, we depended on other cricketers to watch us and then tell us what they thought we were doing wrong. (Quote by - Geoffrey Boycott)
Focus on remedies, not faults. (Quote by - Jack Nicklaus)
I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Jupiter has placed upon us two wallets. Hanging behind each person's back he has given one full of his own faults; in front he has hung a heavy one full of other people's. (Quote by - Phaedrus)
Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults. (Quote by - Antisthenes)
