Faults Quotes
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So may he rest, his faults lie gently on him!
William Shakespeare
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My freedom from hatred - I would even claim for myself individually, my love - for those who consider themselves to be my enemies, does not make me blind to their faults.
Mahatma Gandhi
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We may observe in humorous authors that the faults they chiefly ridicule have often a likeness in themselves. Cervantes had much of the knight-errant in him; Sir George Etherege was unconsciously the Fopling Flutter of his own satire; Goldsmith was the same hero to chambermaids, and coward to ladies that he has immortalized in his charming comedy; and the antiquarian frivolities of Jonathan Oldbuck had their resemblance in Jonathan Oldbuck's creator.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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People aren't evil and people aren't good. They live how they can one day at a time. They come out of dust they go back to dust, dusty feet, no wings, and whose fault is that?
Caryl Churchill
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The demise of our community and culture is the fault of sissified men who have been overly influenced by women.
Tony Evans
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No golfer ever gets so consistently good that he can't use some constructive advice. No matter how many trophies he may win, he can't analyze and remedy his own faults.
Byron Nelson
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An artist who is too self-centered is liable to exhibit faults he abhors: carelessness, callousness, and even downright cruelty.
Eric Maisel
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I think there are a lot of great journalists out there. I don't find much fault in the journalist in general; I think everybody would like to break a good story.
George Clooney
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Be kind to each other. It is better to commit faults with gentleness than to work miracles with unkindness.
Mother Teresa
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It is a well-known fact that we see the faults in other's works more readily than we do in our own.
Pablo Picasso
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If anyone should tell you that a particular person has spoken critically of you, don't bother with excuses or defenses. Just smile and reply, "I guess that person doesn't know about all my other faults. Otherwise, he wouldn't have mentioned only these."
Epictetus
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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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He loved her, both for her fault and her redemption of it, more than he had ever thought that he could love her; for he had believed that in their kiss love had reached its uttermost. But love has no uttermost, as the starshave no number and the sea no rest.
Eleanor Farjeon
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Look not to the faults of others, nor to their omissions and commissions. But rather look to your own acts, to what you have done and left undone.
Gautama Buddha
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Of all faults the one she most despised in others was the want of bravery; the meanness of heart which leads to untruth.
Elizabeth Gaskell
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The effect of every burden laid down is to leave us relieved; and when the soul has laid down that of its faults at the feet of God, it feels as though it had wings.
Eugenie de Guerin
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Everybody loves to find fault, it gives a feeling of superiority.
William Feather
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I’ve a goodly share of faults. I rush in, where I should tread carefully. I speak, where I should listen. But when I hear them sing, I don’t just hear a hymn. They’re singing to God because they haven’t found anyone else who will listen.
Courtney Milan
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Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
William Blake
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He who flatters a man is his enemy. he who tells him of his faults is his maker.
Confucius
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... one's own faults are always a heavy chain to drag through life and one can't help groaning under the weight now and then.
George Eliot
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I'm not big on plastic surgery for me but I don't fault it for someone who wants it for them. You have to do what makes you feel good, but it's not my thing.
Sharon Stone
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Don't go telling yourself you're in love with the man he could be; you gotta love the man standing in front of you right now. Simply put, love the person not the potential! Otherwise, he will always be disappointing to you. And whose fault is that?
Niecy Nash
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A hero without faults is like an omelet without little bits of eggshell in it.
Colin Cotterill