Faults Quotes

• 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
  • Fact
  • Works
  • Faults

• If people leave your coalition, whose fault is it? It's your fault. You have to build a coalition that's attractive to people.

  

  Van Jones
  • People
  • Faults
  • Attractive

• So may he rest, his faults lie gently on him!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • May
  • Lying
  • Memorable

• The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Ends
  • Disposition
  • Acquisition

• 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
  • Speak
  • Listen
  • I Have

• The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Qualities
  • Burglar
  • Financier

• I think we go well together. I like being with you because I'm never bored. Even when we're not talking, even when we're not touching, even when we're not in the same room, I'm not bored. I'm never bored. I think it's because I have confidence in you, in your thoughts. Do you understand? I love everything I see in you, and everything I don't see. I know your faults, but as it turns out, I feel as though your faults go well with my qualities. We're not afraid of the same things. Even our inner demons go well together! You, you're worth more than you show.

  

  Anna Gavalda
  • Bored
  • Faults
  • Qualities

• Everybody loves to find fault, it gives a feeling of superiority.

  

  William Feather
  • Giving
  • Feelings
  • Superiority

• 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
  • Hero
  • Creator
  • Authors

• 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
  • Heart
  • Meanness
  • Untruth

• Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Faults
  • Virtues
  • Self-Love

• 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
  • Evil
  • Feet
  • Wings

• The demise of our community and culture is the fault of sissified men who have been overly influenced by women.

  

  Tony Evans
  • Culture
  • Community
  • Demise

• ... 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
  • Life
  • Help
  • Weight

• 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
  • Life
  • Sea
  • Numbers

• 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
  • Faults
  • Acts
  • Commissions

• 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
  • Faults
  • Excuses
  • Defenses

• 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
  • Feels
  • Surgery
  • Plastic

• I ask you, is it the fig tree's fault that it's not the season for figs? What kind of thing is that to do to an innocent tree, wither it instantly?

  

  Yann Martel
  • Kind
  • Tree
  • Innocent

• He who flatters a man is his enemy. he who tells him of his faults is his maker.

  

  Confucius
  • Enemy
  • Faults
  • Flatters

• An artist who is too self-centered is liable to exhibit faults he abhors: carelessness, callousness, and even downright cruelty.

  

  Eric Maisel
  • Artist
  • Cruelty
  • Self-centered

• If I am true to myself, if I am true to mankind, if I am true to humanity, I must understand all the faults that human flesh is heir to.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Humanity
  • Faults
  • Human Flesh

• Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own.

  

  William Penn
  • Men
  • Shows
  • Weakness

• I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Friendship
  • Faults

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