Fault Quotes

• Spraypainting a shop shutter turns an ugly, boring thing into something interesting and colourful. I think you'd have to be a pretty negative person to find fault in it.

  

  Ben Eine
  • Interesting
  • Fault
  • Shutter

• I think in most relationships that have problems, there's fault on both sides. And in order for it to work, there has to be some common ground that's shared. And it's not just one person making amends.

  

  Steve Carell
  • Relationships
  • Sides
  • Fault

• The most censorious are generally the least judicious; who, having nothing to recommend themselves, will be finding fault with others. No man envies the merit of another, that has any of his own.

  

  Ellin Devis
  • Recommend
  • Judicious
  • Envies

• We [U.S.S.R. and U.S.A.] can exist peacefully together if we don't indulge in too much mutual fault-finding in all kinds of trifles.

  

  Joseph Stalin
  • Together
  • Fault
  • Trifles

• There is no greater fault than sensual indulgence. There is no greater misfortune than malcontent. There is no greater calamity than greed.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Fault
  • Indulgence
  • Malcontent

• A cake is a very good test of an oven: if it browns too much on one side and not on the other, it's not your fault - you need to have your oven checked.

  

  Delia Smith
  • Cake
  • Checked
  • Browns

• Let us look for the good rather than try to discover any hidden evil. We can easily find fault in others if that is what we are looking for.

  

  Nathan Eldon Tanner
  • Good
  • Fault
  • Look For

• That was my fault. Basically it was just good defense and I made a bad play.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Play

• “They gave no alms; in their view charity simply demoralized people. If you worked as hard as they did then you would earn as much too: it was open to everyone to do so, and if you didn’t know how to get on in life that was your own fault.”

  

  Wladyslaw Szpilman
  • Charity
  • Fault
  • Alms

• To say that it is not our fault does not relieve us of responsibility. However, we may not have polluted the air, but we need to take responsibility, along with others, for cleaning it up. Each of us needs to look at our own behavior. Am I perpetuating and reinforcing the negative messages so pervasive in our culture, or am I seeking to challenge them?

  

  Beverly Daniel Tatum
  • Responsibility
  • Challenge
  • Behavior

• 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
  • Question
  • Value
  • Fault

• 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
  • Guy
  • Track
  • Laps

• I regret losing certain women, but it was always my fault.

  

  Scott Vincent James Baio
  • Women
  • Losing
  • Fault

• 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
  • Character
  • Fault
  • Voltaire

• To me, love is a pure idea forged in flesh, awkwardly maybe, but it had to connect to somewhere, despite twists and turns of underground cable. An all-too-perfect thing. Sometimes the lines get crossed. Or you get a wrong number. But that's nobody's fault. It'll always be like that, so long as we exist in this physical form. As a matter of principle.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Idea
  • Love Is
  • Exist

• You'll understand, I'm sure that I'm chasing the merest sliver of color. It's my own fault. I want to grasp the intangible. It's terrible how the light runs out. Color, any color, lasts a second, sometimes 3 or 4 minutes at most.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Color
  • Fault
  • Sliver

• I don't believe that just because one person is born on one side of some imaginary line and another person is born on the other side means that a lot of people should be getting screwed through no fault of their own.

  

  Ben Cohen
  • People
  • Don't Believe
  • Imaginary

• You can never make someone punctual who is not, or quick who is slow, or lively who wants to plod on carefully. I have learnt that every fault is an exaggerated quality, nothing else.

  

  Elisabeth of Wied
  • Fault
  • Learnt
  • Punctual

• Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.

  

  Bram Stoker
  • Science
  • Fault
  • Explain

• Change a virtue in its circumstances find it becomes a vice; change a vice in its circumstances, and it becomes a virtue. Regard the same quality from two sides; on one it is a fault, on the other a merit. The essential of a man is found concealed far below these moral badges.

  

  Hippolyte Taine
  • Virtue
  • Circumstances
  • Vice

• I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults.

  

  David Lee Roth Van Halen
  • Fault
  • Conceit

• Less shame a greater fault would palliate.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Shame
  • Fault
  • Palliate

• Tis a Mistake to think this Fault [tyranny] is proper only to Monarchies; other Forms of Government are liable to it, as well as that. For where-ever the Power that is put in any hands for the Government of the People, and the Preservation of their Properties, is applied to other ends, and made use of to impoverish, harass, or subdue them to the Arbitrary and Irregular Commands of those that have it: There it presently becomes Tyranny, whether those that thus use it are one or many.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • People
  • Government
  • Mistake

• If you're bored in New York, it's your own fault.

  

  Myrna Loy
  • Bored
  • Fault

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