Fault Quotes
Will you tell me my fault, frankly as to yourself, for I had rather wince, than die. Men do not call the surgeon to commend the bone, but to set it, Sir.
Emily Dickinson
...I is another. If the brass wakes the trumpet, it’s not its fault. That’s obvious to me: I witness the unfolding of my own thought: I watch it, I hear it: I make a stroke with the bow: the symphony begins in the depths, or springs with a bound onto the stage. If the old imbeciles hadn’t discovered only the false significance of Self, we wouldn’t have to now sweep away those millions of skeletons which have been piling up the products of their one-eyed intellect since time immemorial, and claiming themselves to be their authors!
Arthur Rimbaud
The question is not what man can scorn, or disparage, or find fault with, but what he can love, and value, and appreciate.
John Ruskin
Joie est mon caractere, C'est la faute a Voltaire; Misere est mon trousseau C'est la faute a Rousseau. [Joy is my character, 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Misery is my trousseau 'Tis the fault of Rousseau.] - Gavroche
Victor Hugo
She had a lot of empathy. Maybe that’s why she liked all those bad boys. They were outcasts. It was like she was picking up strays and taking them in. It’s like she could see past their rough exteriors and see the parts of them that hurt. Maybe she thought she could take away the hurt. She was wrong, of course. But I found it hard to fault her for her good heart.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
The effort that we put forth, it's not his fault. He put the guys in that he trusted, that he thought would get the job done.
Alonzo Mourning
(about her teen years) My admirers all said the same thing in different ways. It was my fault, their wanting to kiss and hug me.
Marilyn Monroe
The only way to security for Israel and a humane life for Palestinians in their own land is political. No matter where the fault for past negotiating failures lies, there is no other path.
Anthony Lewis
If someone is a lesbian, it's man's fault.
Alexander Lukashenko
I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
Moliere
Y'know, I realize that George W. Bush is an asshole, but don't judge all us yankees by the actions of our government. Remember, he didn't win the popular vote so it's not entirely our fault!
Chris Shiflett
Foo Fighters
Of course, it wasn't my fault. I didn't shoot the man. But he was a civilian, and I ask myself, 'What was his fault?'
Abu Abbas
Ah! my dear Watson, there we come into those realms of conjecture, where the most logical mind may be at fault.
Arthur Conan Doyle
I am an arrogant and impatient listener, but in the case of a few composers, a very few, when I hear a work I do not like, I am convinced that it is my own fault. Verdi is one of those composers.
Benjamin Britten
To have merit to abstain from a fault, is a manner to be guilty.
Marguerite Yourcenar
Never insult someone's OTP, if they kill you, it's your fault.
Dan Howell
Just as lavishness leads easily to presumption, so does frugality to meanness. But meanness is a far less serious fault than presumption.
Confucius
I mean, you can?t spot a guy like that a second around this track with only a few laps to go. That was my own fault.
B. R. Hayden
Oh, I know: If you're fat, let's not blame you, let's sue McDonalds! Oh, for cryin' out loud, hey, if you smoke, not your fault, it's the tobacco company's fault! Hey, if you shoot somebody, not your fault, let's blame the gun industry!
Brad Stine
And now we eat. The eponymous eating. Don't want butter, don't want salt. Dinner is thinner but it's not my fault.
Brenda Shaughnessy
