Faults Quotes - Page 29

• I dislike nothing more than finding fault with a man's nature or talent; it only depresses and worries and does no good; one cannot add a cubit to one's stature, all striving and struggling are useless there, so one has to be silent about it, and let the responsibility rest with God.

  Felix Mendelssohn

  Depressing, Struggle, Responsibility

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• I don't tolerate whining, I look at people & say 'you're a victim, it's not your fault' figure our how to survive!

  Allan Sloan

  People, Looks, Whining

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• The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to praise rather than tofind fault.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Poetry, World, Splendor

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• If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Soon Enough, Youth, Ifs

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

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• Certain faults are necessary for the existence of the individual. We would resent it if old friends were to get rid of certain peculiarities.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Friends, Individual, Certain

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• If [being confident stems from] a self-esteem issue, it's important to embrace the things you might define as so-called imperfections - because something that you might call an imperfection, someone else might find so amazing and so beautiful. It's all in how you embrace yourself, your faults, and your mistakes in life. There's no better way to learn and become a better person than to go through those moments.

  John Slattery

  Beautiful, Mistake, Self Esteem

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Sexually-transmitted diseases is caused by sexual activity and promiscuity it spreads diseases. That's been known, you know, about 400 or 500 years, that somehow these diseases are spread. If fault comes with people because of their personal behavior but it isn't to be placed on a burden on other people, innocent people, why should they have to pay for the consequences?

  Ron Paul

  Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Years, People

  "Reps. Ron Paul, Michele Bachmann and Gov. Rick Perry on Final Push in Iowa". "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. January 1, 2012.

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• Truly it is reasonable to make a great distinction between the faults that come from our weakness and those that come from our wickedness.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Evil, Weakness, Wickedness

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• I often accuse my finest acquaintances of an immense frivolity; for, while there are manners and compliments we do not meet, we donot teach one another the lessons of honesty and sincerity that the brutes do, or of steadiness and solidity that the rocks do. The fault is commonly mutual; however, for we do not habitually demand any more of each other.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Honesty, Character

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• When it's your own fault, things hurt worse than when someone else is to blame.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Hurt, Blame

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• In a world which furnishes so many employments which are useful, and so many which are amusing, it is our own fault if we ever know what ennui [boredom] is, or if we are ever driven to the miserable resource of gaming, which corrupts our dispositions, and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Gambling, Boredom, Employment

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• The most striking fault in work by young or beginning novelists, submitted for criticism, is irrelevance--due either to infatuation or indecision. To direct such an author's attention to the imperative of relevance is certainly the most useful--and possibly the only--help that can be given.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Irrelevance, Criticism, Novelists

  Elizabeth Bowen (1975). “Pictures and conversations”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we seeourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.

  Moliere

  Mirrors, Satire, Should

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• The definition of good prose is proper words in their proper places; of good verse, the most proper words in their proper places.The propriety is in either case relative. The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Poetry, Attention, Definitions

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1835). “Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge: In Two Volumes”, p.214

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• Shakespeare had no tutors but nature and genius. He caught his faults from the bad taste of his contemporaries. In an age still less civilized Shakespeare might have been wilder, but would not have been vulgar.

  Horace Walpole

  Age, Genius, Might

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• Pride is a fault that great men blush not to own: it is the ennobled offspring of self-love; though, it must be confessed, grave and pompous vanity, Iike a fat plebeian in a rove of office, does very often assume its name.

  Joanna Baillie

  Pride, Men, Names

  Joanna Baillie (1851). “The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie ; Complete in One Volume”, p.209

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• She abounds with lucious faults.

  Quintilian

  Dating

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• Mother, when your children are irritable, do not make them more so by scolding and fault-finding, but correct their irritability by good nature and mirthfulness. Irritability comes from errors in food, bad air, too little sleep, a necessity for change of scene and surroundings; from confinement in close rooms, and lack of sunshine.

  Herbert Spencer

  Mother, Children, Sleep

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• A lifetime can well be spent correcting and improving one's own faults without bothering about others.

  Edward Weston

  Lifetime, Bother, Wells

  Edward Weston (1973). “The Daybooks of Edward Weston: California”

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• I don't feel rivalry. I'm the least competitive person you'll meet ever, to a fault.

  Rob Corddry

  Rivalry, Feels, Persons

  "Rob Corddry Talks ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTH, Voicing His First Animated Feature, Earning an Eagle Scout Badge, WARM BODIES and PAIN & GAIN". collider.com. February 13, 2013.

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• Press not a falling man too far; 'tis virtue:
  His faults lie open to the laws; let them,
  Not you, correct him.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Fall, Men

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.564

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• It's not the skunk's fault that he's a skunk or that he gives off this really bad stink. If I am a skunk, I want to live as a skunk, I want to know what my truth is, to know the person I am without fear.

  Hrithik Roshan

  Giving, Want, Truth Is

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• Best men oft are moulded out of faults.

  William Shakespeare

  Men

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• Though we may not desire to detect fraud, we must not, on that account, endeavor to be insensible of it, for, as cunning is a crime, so is duplicity a fault, and if men dread knaves, they also despise fools.

  Norm MacDonald

  Men, Duplicity, Desire

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• I criticize myself ruthlessly, but never mention the faults of which I am truly ashamed.

  Mason Cooley

  Ashamed, Criticize

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