Faults Quotes - Page 2

• And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.

  William Shakespeare

  Excuse, Making Excuses

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

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• My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.

  John Green

  Stars, I Hate You, Green

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.176, Penguin

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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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• 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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• Correct one fault at a time. Concentrate on the one fault you want to overcome.

  Sam Snead

  Inspirational, Focus, Overcoming

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

  Hayley Atwell

  Character, People

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.

  James F. Cooper

  Ambition, Simplicity, Abuse

  "The American Democrat: Or, Hints on the Social and Civic Relations of the United States of America". Book by James Fenimore Cooper, 1838.

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• We are people with all the hopes, dreams, passions, and faults of everyone else. Eighty percent of us are born into families with no history of dwarfism.

  Billy Barty

  Dream, Passion, People

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• Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.

  John Churton Collins

  Inspirational, Mistrust, Subordinates

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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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