Faults Quotes

Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.

The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.

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.

We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues.

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.

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.

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

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.

We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.

I know my faults, but I'm comfortable with me.

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.

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.

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.

Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.

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?

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

The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.

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.

All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.

There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.

We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.

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

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.

Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect?

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

I think people who have faults are a lot more interesting than people who are perfect.

Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

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.