Faults Quotes

A good drawing has immense vitality because it is explanatory. In a good drawing even its faults have become virtues.

My two major faults are that I row too long and pick up too many women

In the matter of animals I love only cats, but I love them unreasonably for their qualities and in spite of their numerous faults. I have only one, but I could not live without a cat.

Our friends don't see our faults, or conceal them, or soften them.

If I'm in danger then it's usually my fault and it's up to me to get myself out of it. I am not in it just to get an adrenalin rush. No way!

You can bear anything if it is not your fault.

There's something so accessible about heroes who have faults.

If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody.

I always wanted to take the blame. I've always been apologetic for other people's faults.

I worked very hard, but I think it's unfair to make it all sound like it's all David's fault.

Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.

A brother who recognizes that we have shortcomings, we, in the struggle, have faults, and that he wanted to reconcile differences.

You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.

I have a special grudge against those who have the same faults as I do.

Not to commit faults counts for more than to do good.

I can forgive a man’s past faults, his present shortcomings, and his future failures if every minute of every day he loves me like it’s his religion.

A just person knows how to secure his own reputation without blemishing another's by exposing his faults.

The fault is in the system and not in the men.

I am not given to finding fault, for there are innumerable fools.

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.

The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.

Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth: If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt.

The way to acquire lasting esteem is not by the fewness of a writer's faults, but the greatness of his beauties, and our noblest works are generally most replete with both.

If you deny the existence of your fault or error, it will strengthen its hold over you.

A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents.

I am a very judgmental person. Of myself and other people. I recognise it's a great fault, but I have no power over that.

But there are times when patience proves at fault.

One fault begets another; one crime renders another necessary.

Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others.

Tediousness is the most fatal of all faults.

It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.

The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.

Only those faults which we encounter in ourselves are insufferable to us in others.

What cannot be changed cannot be blamed.

You can tell me anything you want to about investment, but you can't move no money of mine, so I know where all of mine is. Now, if we ain't got a lot, it's our fault.

The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before.

He that avoideth not small faults, by little and little falleth into greater.

A fault is sooner found than mended.

I lost my job as an art salesman. It was the customer's fault. He wanted to buy the wrong paintings.

Translations increase the faults of a work and spoil its beauties.

You must cease from looking at human mistakes and look at successes; cease from seeing faults and see virtues.

In love quarrels the party that loves the most is always most willing to acknowledge the greater fault.

If you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out. Nothing can come out of you that is not in you. If when you are pressured, anger comes out, it is not the fault of the person who pressured.

England with all thy faults, I love thee still-- My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

So may he rest, his faults lie gently on him!

And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not.

Condemn the fault and not the actor of it?

Faults that are rich are fair.

O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults, looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!