Faults Quotes - Page 4

• Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  People, Merit, Defects

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• Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Men, Quality, He Man

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• This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't think of anything that's your fault.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Thinking, Tests, Paranoia

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• Give no time to finding fault of criticism.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Giving, Criticism, Findings

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• If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim.

  Richard Bach

  Responsibility, Victim, Ifs

  "Running from Safety: An Adventure of the Spirit". Book by Richard Bach, 1994.

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• It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Quality, Peculiar, Fool

  "Tusculanarum Disputationum". Book by Cicero,

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• The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.

  Quintilian

  Brilliant, Excellent, Impression

  Quintilian (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)”, p.1829, Delphi Classics

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• It is well there is no one without fault; for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem to belong to s different species.

  William Hazlitt

  Optimistic, Different, World

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1473, Delphi Classics

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• To copy faults is want of sense.

  Charles Churchill

  Want, Copies

  Charles Churchill (1766). “Poems”, p.19

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• Faultless to a fault.

  Robert Browning

  Perfection

  'The Ring and the Book' (1868-9) bk. 9, l. 1175.

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• When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.

  Confucius

  Mistake, Educational, Failure

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.141, Courier Corporation

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• The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.

  Madame de Stael

  Life, Encouragement, Insightful

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• Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.

  Phillips Brooks

  Forgiveness, Bears, Vengeful

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• The real fault is to have faults and not amend them.

  Confucius

  Real, Justice, Diversity

  Chʻu Chai, Confucius, Mencius (1965). “Lun Yü”, New Hyde Park, N.Y. : University Books

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• I think people who have faults are a lot more interesting than people who are perfect.

  Spike Lee

  Thinking, People, Perfect

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• The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.

  Marquis de Sade

  Men, Birth Defects, May

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• I'm empathetic to a fault. I really do - embarrassingly enough - tear up when someone squishes a bug in front of me.

  Kristen Bell

  Tears, Bugs, Enough

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• Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.

  Anita Brookner

  Women, Thinking, Good Woman

  Hotel du Lac (1984) ch. 7

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• A cake is a very good test of an oven: if it browns too much on one side and not on the other, it's not your fault - you need to have your oven checked.

  Delia Smith

  Cake, Tea, Needs

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• You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

  Benjamin Franklin

  Marriage, Humorous, Wife

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.39, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Taken, Mind, Skins

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• Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Men, Human Nature, Frailty

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• Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Inspirational, Trust, Being Yourself

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• Isn't it true that the fault of birth rests somewhat on the child? I believe it's we who led our parents on to bear us, and it's our unborn children who make our flesh itch.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Children, Believe, Parent

  T. E. Lawrence (2015). “The Collected Works of Lawrence of Arabia (Unabridged): Seven Pillars of Wisdom + The Mint + The Evolution of a Revolt + Complete Letters (Including Translations of The Odyssey and The Forest Giant)”, p.1569, e-artnow

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• The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Lying, Humor

  George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Major Barbara”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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