Faults Quotes - Page 26

• A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit
  With the same spirit that its author writ:
  Survey the Whole, nor seek slight faults to find
  Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind.

  Alexander Pope

  Moving, Perfect, Judging

  Alexander Pope (1804). “A Select Collection of Poems: Viz. An Essay on Man; An Essay on Criticism; The Messiah; &c. &c. ... To which are Prefixed, An Account of the Life of the Author”, p.105

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• If you see in your children most of your own faults, you have failed as a parent, but succeeded as a neurotic.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Children, Parent, Neurotic

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.37, BookBaby

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• It is but a small merit to observe silence, but it is a grave fault to speak of matters on which we should be silent.

  Ovid

  Silence, Matter, Merit

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• talking too much is a far greater social fault than talking too little.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Talking, Littles, Too Much

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1962). “Book of common sense etiquette”

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• The lowest people are generally the first to find fault with show or equipage; especially that of a person lately emerged from his obscurity. They never once consider that he is breaking the ice for themselves.

  William Shenstone

  Ice, People, Obscurity

  William Shenstone (1927). “Men & Manners”

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• None, none descends into himself, to find
  The secret imperfections of his mind:
  But every one is eagle-ey'd to see
  Another's faults, and his deformity.

  John Dryden

  Eagles, Imperfection, Mind

  John Dryden (1760). “The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, Esq;: Containing All His Original Poems, Tales, and Translations. Now First Collected and Published Together in Four Volumes. With Explanatory Notes and Observations. Also an Account of His Life and Writings ...”, p.379

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• It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.

  Simone Weil

  Wish, Made, Clear

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.66, Psychology Press

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• Fear hath the common fault of a justice of peace, and is apt to conclude hastily from every slight circumstance, without examining the evidence on both sides.

  Henry Fielding

  Fear, Justice, Sides

  Henry Fielding, Sir Walter Scott (1831). “The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling”, p.91

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• Avoid Extremes; and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.

  Alexander Pope

  Littles, Too Much, Extremes

  Alexander Pope (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe”, p.355

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• The way to acquire lasting esteem is not by the fewness of a writer's faults, but the greatness of his beauties, and our noblest works are generally most replete with both.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Greatness, Style, Way

  Oliver Goldsmith, Henry George Bohn (1848). “Works: With a Life and Notes”, p.111

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• [Rhyme is] but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter; ... Not without cause therefore some both Italian and Spanish poets of prime note have rejected rhyme, ... as have also long since our best English tragedies, as... trivial and of no true musical delight; which [truly] consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another, not in the jingling sound of like endings, a fault avoided by the learned ancients both in poetry and all good oratory.

  John Milton

  Italian, Numbers, Long

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• A critic is never too severe when he only detects the faults of an author. But he is worse than too severe when, in consequence of this detection, be presumes to place himself on a level with genius.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Genius, Levels, Critics

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].”, p.162

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• Do you feel that you have lost your way in life? Then God Himself will show you your way. Are you utterly helpless, worn out, body and soul? Then God's eternal love is ready and willing to help you up, and revive you. Are you wearied with doubts and terrors? Then God's eternal light is ready to show you your way; God's eternal peace ready to give you peace. Do you feel yourself full of sins and faults? Then take heart; for God's unchangeable will is, to take away those sins, and purge you from those faults.

  Charles Kingsley

  God, Heart, Love Is

  Charles Kingsley (1859). “The Good News of God: Sermons”, p.369

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• Why marry a woman if you're going to betray her, and if you're going to betray her, why beat her? The fault is not hers ... I sometimes think the worst we do, we do behind closed doors.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Thinking, Doors, Infidelity

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Dolley”, p.49, Bantam

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• It is undoubtedly true, though it may seem paradoxical,--but, in general, those who are habitually employed in finding and displaying faults are unqualified for the work of reformation.

  Edmund Burke

  May, Unqualified, Paradoxical

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The works and correspondence of...Edmund Burke”, p.291

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• Self-conceit is a weighty quality, and will sometimes bring down the scale when there is nothing else in it. It magnifies a fault beyond proportion, and swells every omission into an outrage.

  Jeremy Collier

  Self, Omission, Quality

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• To hint at a fault does more mischief than speaking out; for whatever is left for the imagination to finish will not fail to be overdone.

  Hannah More

  Imagination, Criticism, Doe

  Hannah More (1835). “The Works of Hannah More”, p.354

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• There is scarcely any fault in another which offends us more than vanity, though perhaps there is none that really injures us so little.

  Hannah More

  Vanity, Littles

  Hannah More (1835). “The Works of Hannah More”, p.132

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• I'm probably the most honest person you'll ever meet - to a fault, like, I-will-hurt-your-feelings honest. I'm sure if I lied about anything, it would have been silly, but I haven't retained that information.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Hurt, Silly, Feelings

  "Ellen DeGeneres Breaks Into A Sweat While Taking HuffPost’s #nofilter Challenge". Interview with Leigh Blickley, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 25, 2013.

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• The great fault of mankind is that it will not think.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Thinking, Mankind

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriot (Stanton). Blatch (Mrs) (1922). “Elizabeth Cady Stanton as revealed in her letters, diary and reminiscences”

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• It is easier for the reader to judge, by a thousand times, than for the writer to invent. The writer must summon his Idea out of nowhere, and his characters out of nothing, and catch words as they fly, and nail them to the page. The reader has something to go by and somewhere to start from, given to him freely and with great generosity by the writer. And still the reader feels free to find fault.

  Fay Weldon

  Book, Reading, Character

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• Tis mighty easy o'er a glass of wine
  On vain refinements vainly to refine,
  To laugh at poverty in plenty's reign,
  To boast of apathy when out of pain,
  And in each sentence, worthy of the schools,
  Varnish'd with sophistry, to deal out rules
  Most fit for practice, but for one poor fault
  That into practice they can ne'er be brought.

  Charles Churchill

  Pain, Wine, School

  Charles Churchill (1855). “The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill: With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes”, p.377

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• This is my fault. Give me the ball.

  Bronko Nagurski

  Nfl, Giving, Balls

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• Happy the innocent whose equal thoughts are free from anguish as they are from faults.

  Edmund Waller

  Innocence, Innocent, Equal

  Edmund Waller (1744). “Sammlung”, p.219

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• sometimes the very faults of parents produce a tendency to opposite virtues in their children.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Children, Opposites, Parent

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1822). “Works”, p.302

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