Faults Quotes

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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

Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.

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.

Faults are beauties in a lover's eye.

I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would take care of.

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.

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

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

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.

Every man has his faults; I have and so have you - you will allow me to say so!

Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.

If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.

I am not without faults and I am far short of perfect.

A husband without faults is a dangerous observer.

Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself.

Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.

Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

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.

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.