Faults Quotes
I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred.
Frank Langella
If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.
Thomas Gray
Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
Thomas Carlyle
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
Oliver Goldsmith
We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.
George Eliot
Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
William Shakespeare
Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.
Edward de Bono
Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
Laurence J. Peter
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
Benjamin Franklin
I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
Mahatma Gandhi
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.
Sparky Anderson
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.
Alfred Jodl
Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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.
John McGraw
Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
Henry Ward Beecher
All the faults of the age come from Christianity and journalism. Christianity, of course, but why journalism?
Frank Harris
Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.
Francois Fenelon