Faults Quotes - Page 30

• Publish not men's secret faults, for by disgracing them you make yourself of no repute.

  Saadi

  Men, Secret, Malice

  Saadi, Francis Gladwin, Eric Serejski (2016). “Gulistan or Rose Garden”, p.156, Innovations and Information

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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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• The best way to know your faults is to notice which ones you accuse others of.

  James Richardson

  Way, Best Way, Knows

  "Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays", No. 195, Book by James Richardson, 2001.

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• Every man has a bag hanging before him, in which he puts his neighbour's faults, and another behind him in which he stows his own.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Bags, Behinds

  William Shakespeare (1969). “Coriolanus”, p.172, CUP Archive

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• Blessed is he whose own faults keep him from seeing the faults of others.

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Blessed, Seeing

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• I will not tolerate your faults. They are of no use to me.

  Mason Cooley

  Use, Tolerate

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• When we reverence anything in the mature, it is their virtues or their wisdom, and this is an easy matter. But we reverence the faults and follies of children. We should probably come considerably nearer to the true conception of things if we treated all grown-up persons, of all titles and types, with precisely that dark affection and dazed respect with which we treat the infantile limitations.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Children, Dark, Matter

  "The Defendant". Book by G. K. Chesterton, 1901.

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• If you cannot patiently bear correction, endeavor to avoid fault.

  Norm MacDonald

  Criticism, Bears, Endeavor

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• There are two things at which most men are grieved: when their faults are exposed, and when their virtues are concealed.

  Norm MacDonald

  Men, Two, Virtue

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• Propriety of thought and propriety of diction are commonly found together. Obscurity and affectation are the two greatest faults of style. Obscurity of expression generally springs from confusion of ideas; and the same wish to dazzle, at any cost, which produces affectation in the manner of a writer, is likely to produce sophistry in his reasonings.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Spring, Expression, Ideas

  John Morley, Thomas B. Macaulay (2016). “Machiavelli : the Founder of the Political”, p.89, Editions Le Mono

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• By some mysterious method, Susan Carr's gossip gave the listener a gentler feeling towards his kind. When she spoke of her neighbors' faults, one knew that somehow they were simply virtues gone to seed.

  Margaret Deland

  Gossip, Feelings, Gone

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• A woman with a hazel eye never elopes from her husband, never chats scandal, never finds fault, never talks too much nor too little--always is an entertaining, intellectual, agreeable and lovely creature.

  Arthur Frederick Saunders

  Husband, Eye, Lovely

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• We are too prone to find fault; let us look for some of the perfections.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Perfection, Complaining, Looks

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• One of the greatest faults of the women of the present time is a silly fear of things, and one object of the education of girls should be to give them knowledge of what things are really dangerous.

  Ellen Swallow Richards

  Girl, Fear, Silly

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• The grace of novelty and the length of habit, though so very opposite to one another, yet agree in this, that they both alike keepus from discovering the faults of our friends.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Friendship, Opposites, Grace

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• The faults of a brilliant writer are never dangerous on the long run; a thousand people read his work who would read no other; inquiry is directed to each of his doctrines; it is soon discovered what is sound and what is false; the sound become maxims, and the false beacons.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Running, Long, People

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• Women see faults much more readily in each other than they can discover perfections.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Perfection, Rivalry

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• Want of perseverance is the great fault of women in everything--morals, attention to health, friendship, and so on. It cannot be too often repeated that women never reach the end of anything through want of perseverance.

  Suzanne Curchod

  Perseverance, Attention, Want

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• God Himself allows certain faults; and often we say, "I have deserved to err; I have deserved to be ignorant.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Ignorant, Certain

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• Only those faults which we encounter in ourselves are insufferable to us in others.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Encounters, Insufferable, Shortcomings

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• We are very wrong to think that some fault or other can exclude virtue, or to consider the alliance of good and evil as a monstrosity or an enigma.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Thinking, Evil, Alliances

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

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• He who leaves a fault unpunished invites crime.

  Publilius Syrus

  Crime, Invites

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• The many-headed multitude, whom inconstancy only doth by accident guide to well-doing! Who can set confidence there, where company takes away shame, and each may lay the fault upon his fellow?

  Philip Sidney

  May, Shame, Guides

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”

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• Men are almost always cruel in their neighbors' faults; and make others' overthrow the badge of their own ill-masked virtue.

  Philip Sidney

  Men, Virtue, Neighbor

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.25

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• A good taste in art feels the presence or the absence of merit; a just taste discriminates the degree--the poco piu and the poco meno. A good taste rejects faults; a just taste selects excellences. A good taste is often unconscious; a just taste is always conscious. A good taste may be lowered or spoilt; a just taste can only go on refining more and more.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Art, Excellence, Degrees

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