Fault Quotes

• 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

• There are certain people who will always seek to criticize. This has nothing to do with you. It must be hard to be inside their head, you know? I mean if they find so much fault in everyone around them... then one can only imagine the faults they must see in themselves.

  

  Hannah Hart
  • People
  • Fault
  • Criticize

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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
  • Dinner
  • Fault
  • Butter

• 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

• The hypothesis is pretty; its only fault is that it is neither demonstrated nor demonstrable. Who does not see that this is purely arbitrary fiction that puts nothingness as existing and proposes nothing more than simple noncontradiciton?

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Fiction
  • Hypothesis
  • Proposes

• “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

• 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

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

  

  Scott Vincent James Baio
  • Women
  • Losing
  • Fault

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Bram Stoker
  • Science
  • Fault
  • Explain

• 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

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

  

  David Lee Roth Van Halen
  • Fault
  • Conceit

• 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

• 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

• Let a man be endowed with ten virtues and have but one fault and the one fault will eclipse and darken all the virtues.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Fault
  • Virtues
  • Eclipse

• "She's a very charming and delightful creature," quoth Mr. Robert Sawyer, in reply; "and has only one fault that I know of, Ben. It happens, unfortunately, that that single blemish is a want of taste. She don't like me."

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Fault
  • Creature
  • Charming

• 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

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