Fault Quotes
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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
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Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there Undead.
Bram Stoker
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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
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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
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I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.
Moliere
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Never insult someone's OTP, if they kill you, it's your fault.
Dan Howell
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A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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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
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Un mari, comme un gouvernement, ne doit jamais avouer de faute. A husband, like a government, never needs to admit a fault.
Honore de Balzac
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Less shame a greater fault would palliate.
Dante Alighieri
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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"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
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The fault is in the one who blames. Spirit sees nothing to criticize.
Rumi
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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
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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
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Of course, I love you,' the flower said to him. 'If you were not aware of it, it was my fault.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Many an irritating fault, many an unlovely oddity, has come of a hard sorrow.
George Eliot
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Looking back on everything that happened with me and coach, 99 percent of the time it was my fault. I see that now, definitely. ... Now that he's gone, you understand you lost a lot.
Allen Iverson
