Faults Quotes
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Everybody has something wrong with them.
Ernest Hemingway -
Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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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 -
... 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 -
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 -
Condemn the fault and not the actor of it?
William Shakespeare -
Kindness and courage can repair time's faults, And serving him breeds patience and courtesy In us, light sojourners and passing subjects.
Edwin Muir -
A hero without faults is like an omelet without little bits of eggshell in it.
Colin Cotterill
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Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.
Catullus -
A Husband without Faults is a dangerous Observer.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax -
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 -
What a tiny list of friends I have! All my fault. I less and less want to see people.
Dodie Smith -
McLaren have a reliability problem, ... but an aggressive style of driving can also lead to faults.
Eddie Irvine -
When the plane is delayed, it's not the fault of the girl at the desk. I'm resigned to the fact that everything is out of my control and that air travel nowadays is barbaric.
Tom Conti
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If you're looking for faults use a mirror, not a telescope.
Boonaa Mohammed -
When admins have faults, they do not fear to ignore them.
Confucius -
We should never insult others on account of their faults, for it is our duty to show charity and respect to everyone.
John Calvin -
John Locke said that it is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of truth. It is easy to point out people’s faults. They are always so obvious. But this will never change the person. Better to put the truth in their hands. By the power of truth a life will change.
Bishop Noel Jones -
They say best men are molded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad
William Shakespeare -
At this auspicious period, the United States came into existence as a Nation; and if their Citizens should not be completely free and happy, the fault will be entirely their own.
George Washington
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The same is true of ranking him thus against any work of literature. [Bob Dylan] has been made, through no fault of his own, the object of odious tokenism.
David Bennun -
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 -
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 -
When women can't climax, it's our fault, but when we can't get an erection, we have to go to the doctor.
Carlos Mencia