Faults Quotes - Page 2

• Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

  Confucius

  Life, Success, Mistake

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• Every man should have a fair-sized cemetary in which to bury the faults of his friends.

  Henry Adams

  Friendship, Funny Friend, Men

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• It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.

  Quintilian

  Teacher, Boys, Effort

  Quintilian (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)”, p.78, Delphi Classics

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• If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Love, Pregnancy, Wish

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• If anyone is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault... Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility except our own opinion.

  Epictetus

  Happy Birthday, Loss, Anxiety

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• To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

  Alexander Pope

  Spiritual, Revenge, Hate

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• It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Men, Giving

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Now I can see I was at fault for not being more considerate, but when we were doing the show I didn't think it was my job to be considerate to other people.

  Ron Moody

  Jobs, Thinking, People

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• We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Keeping Secrets, People, Littles

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• O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults, looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!

  William Shakespeare

  Years, Three, Looks

  William Shakespeare, Barry Cornwall (1857). “Tempest”, p.100

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• The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before.

  Theodore Bikel

  Air, Play, Said

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• To acknowledge our faults when we are blamed, is modesty; to discover them to one's friends in ingenuousness, is confidence; but to preach them to all the world, if one does not take care, is pride.

  Confucius

  Pride, Doe, World

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• Just as the British subject loves England despite her faults, so we must insist that all Germans who were part of the old Germany and helped shape her, recognize the greatness and worthiness of present-day Germany.

  Gustav Stresemann

  Greatness, Germany, Shapes

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• People accuse me of being Methody, but I'm not at all. The one thing I don't want people to see is me. I don't want them to be able to recognize my faults and failures and qualities, and I won't use those things to spark off emotions or to illustrate.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  People, Quality, Want

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• And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse, As patches set upon a little breach, Discredit more in hiding of the fault Than did the fault before it was so patch'd.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Littles, Excuse

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.330

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• We all carry fault within.

  Hannah Arendt

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• Only great men have great faults.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Great Men

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 190, 1678.

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• Tis a meaner part of sense to find a fault than taste an excellence.

  John Wilmot

  Excellence, Taste

  John Wilmot, John Adlard (2002). “The Debt to Pleasure: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, in the Eyes of His Contemporaries and in His Own Poetry and Prose”, p.125, Taylor & Francis

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• I like characters who have faults. I'm drawn to darker people.

  Hayley Atwell

  Character, People

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• Faults that are rich are fair.

  William Shakespeare

  Rich, Fairs

  William Shakespeare (1793). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added Notes”, p.489

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• We are dismayed when we find that even disaster cannot cure us of our faults.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Disaster, Cures, Dismayed

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• My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.

  Adam Weishaupt

  Details, May, Plans

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• Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.

  Antisthenes

  Inspirational, Life, Advice

  "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers". Book by Diogenes Laërtius,

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• Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

  Bernard Berenson

  Life, Quality, Taught

  Bernard Berenson (1962). “The Bernard Berenson Treasury: A Selection from the Works, Unpublished Writings, Letters, Diaries, and Journals of the Most Celebrated Humanist and Art Historian of Our Times, 1887-1958”

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• My fault now is making my plays too short.

  Beth Henley

  Play, Too Short

  Interview with Jackson R. Bryer, www.encyclopedia.com. September 30, 2002.

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