Faults Quotes
People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give them up.
A man in public life expects to be sneered at -- it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself.
Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his failings lean'd to Virtue's side.
Vin: I don't know -- and it's all your fault, you know. I used to understand everything. Now it's all confused. Kelsier: Yes, we've messed you up right properly.
We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
I am an arrogant and impatient listener, but in the case of a few composers, a very few, when I hear a work I do not like, I am convinced that it is my own fault. Verdi is one of those composers.
To acknowledge our faults when we are blamed, is modesty; to discover them to one's friends in ingenuousness, is confidence; but to preach them to all the world, if one does not take care, is pride.
The lack of closeness among friends is a fault that cannot be reprimanded without becoming incurable.
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.
The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues.You can't separate them. They're wedded.
We are suffering from our own Karma. It is not the fault of God. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should God be blamed?. . .
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.
They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!
I'm going to show you my faults, I'm going to show you my insecurities, I'm going to be real.
Your failures and your faults, they stick with you. They glob into ugly, cancerous growths inside you and make you want to die.
Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault.
While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on them as virtues.
The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our own virtues.
Stand up, be bold, and take the blame on your own shoulders. Do not go about throwing mud at others; for all the faults you suffer from, you are the sole and only cause.
Of chess it has often been said that life is not long enough for it - but that is the fault of life, not chess.
We are not greatly pleased that our friends should respect our good qualities if they venture to perceive our faults.
Mickey's a nice fellow who never does anyone any harm, who gets into scrapes through no fault of his own but always manages to come up grinning.
I love fat people. Every fat person says it's not their fault, that they have gland trouble. You know which gland? The saliva gland.
He who freely praises what he means to purchase, and he who enumerates the faults of what he means to sell, may set up a partnership with honesty.
Pride (of all others the most dang'rous fault) Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought.
If I am true to myself, if I am true to mankind, if I am true to humanity, I must understand all the faults that human flesh is heir to.
It's easy to see the faults in people, I know; and it's harder to see the good. Especially when the good isn't there.
Wrong people are wrong not because of their faults but because of their presumed virtues.
Many think that when they have confessed a fault there is no need of correcting it.
The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.
Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault?
To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself.
I never said that I wanted to be the only company, is it my fault that I ran my company well? Wouldn't you want the best for your company? Also consider that I started of small.
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.
I will not say it is not Christian to make beads of others faults, and tell them over every day; I say it is infernal. If you want to know how the Devil feels, you do know, if you are such an one.
So far I, at least, have no fault to find with implications of Hamilton's Federalism, but unfortunately his policy was in certain other respects tainted with a more doubtful tendency.
Find fault, when you must find fault, in private, if possible; and some time after the offense, rather than at the time.
Remorse is impotent; it will repeat its faults. Repentance only is a true force; it puts an end to everything.
