Faults Quotes - Page 7

• If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to find with it.

  Stephen Leacock

  School, Would Be, Littles

  Stephen Leacock (2012). “Feast of Stephen”, p.96, McClelland & Stewart

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• People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Thinking, People, Generosity

  Sydney J. Harris (1964). “ON THE CONTRARY”

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• A fault is sooner found than mended.

  Ulpian Fulwell

  Found

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• The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that's laughable is vanity.

  Henri Bergson

  Laughter, Humble, Vanity

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• They say best men are molded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Littles, Measure For Measure

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 5, sc. 1, l. [440]

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• Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.

  John Green

  Life, Stars, Real

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.148, Penguin

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• I’m on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend.

  John Green

  Stars, Roller Coaster, Coasters

  John Green (2008). “Paper Towns”, p.245, Penguin

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• Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.

  William Blake

  Love, Joy, Mind

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.156, Pearson Education

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• Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Nature, Punishment, Proportion

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• The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.

  Agnes de Mille

  Dance, Mirrors, Practice

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• Find fault, when you must find fault, in private, if possible; and some time after the offense, rather than at the time.

  Sydney Smith

  Offense, Ifs

  "A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith". Volume I,

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• What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason.

  Rod Stewart

  Dad, Boys, Guitar

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• Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Success, Work

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.121, Courier Corporation

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• Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.

  Jean Paul

  Chiefs, Humans, Humankind

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• Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.

  Gene Tierney

  Jealousy, Party, Thinking

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

  Luke the Evangelist

  Jesus, Brother, Eye

  New Testament, Luke 6:41,

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• Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.

  Hugh Prather

  Acceptance, Doubt, Virtue

  Hugh Prather, James Baldwin (1983). “Notes to Myself”

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• Its very difficult to determine whether this is the fault of the world that has abandoned the Church, or the Church that does not know how to relate to the world.

  Angelo Scola

  Church, Doe, World

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• He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.

  Honore de Balzac

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Peace

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• Of course in war all madness's come out in a man. That is the fault of war not of a man or a nation.

  Frieda Lawrence

  War, Men, Madness

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• If you commit a big crime then you are crazy, and the more heinous the crime the crazier you must be. Therefore you are not responsible, and nothing is your fault.

  Peggy Noonan

  Crazy, Insanity, Madness

  Peggy Noonan (1990). “What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era”, Random House (NY)

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• Sexism is not the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothers

  Robin Morgan

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Father

  Robin Morgan (2014). “The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches”, p.39, Open Road Media

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• A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Light, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.230

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• Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it.

  Og Mandino

  Character, Self, Over You

  Og Mandino (2010). “A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By”, p.117, Bantam

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• There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

  George Eliot

  Pride, Men, Fault Finders

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