Faults
» “Our friends don’t see our faults, or conceal them, or soften them.”
– Joseph Addison
» ”The greatest of all faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.”
– Thomas Carlyle
» ”Not to alter one’s faults is to be faulty indeed.”
– Confucius
» ”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.”
– Confucius
» ”The real fault is to have faults and not amend them.”
– Confucius
» ”He has not a single redeeming defect.”
– Benjamin Disraeli
» ”A man’s personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
» ”Don’t find fault, find a remedy.”
– Henry Ford
» ”A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.”
– Benjamin Franklin
» ”A good garden may have some weeds.”
– Thomas Fuller
» ”A fault is sooner found than mended.”
– Ulpian Fulwell
» ”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.”
– Elizabeth Gaskell
» ”Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
» ”Some faults are so closely allied to qualities that it is difficult to weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.”
– Oliver Goldsmith
» ”Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people’s characters.”
– Margaret Halsey
» ”It is well that there is no one without a fault; for he would not have a friend in the world.”
– William Hazlitt
» ”It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.”
– Georg Hegel
» ”I may have faults, but being wrong ain’t one of them.”
– Jimmy Hoffa
» ”While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.”
– Horace
» ”Bad people excuse their faults; wise people leave them.”
– Ben Johnston
» ”Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.”
– Jean De La Fontaine
» ”If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.”
– Francois De La Rochefoucauld
» ”Only the great can afford to have great defects.”
– Francois De La Rochefoucauld
» ”We forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone.”
– Francois De La Rochefoucauld
» ”Fools can find fault, but they can’t act anymore wisely.”
– Langbien
» ”Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting his thumb on the scales.”
– Byron J. Langenfield
» ”Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.”
– Doris Lessing
» ”It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.”
– Russell Lynes
» ”Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.”
– Marcus Valerius Martial
» ”Humankind’s chief fault is that they have so many small ones.”
– Jean Paul
» ”The essence of a man is found in his faults.”
– Francis Picabia
» ”No one is worse, for knowing the worst of themselves.”
– Proverb
» ”Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one.”
– Chinese Proverb
» ”Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.”
– Pennsylvania Dutch Proverb
» ”Wink at small faults, for you have great ones yourself.”
– Scottish Proverb
» ”A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little ”personal characteristics.””
– Helen Rowland
» ”The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.”
– Marquis De Sade
» ”Why do we discover faults so much more readily than perfection.”
– Marquise De S
