#Faults Quotes

“His worst fault is, he's given to prayer; he is something peevish that way.”

“Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.”

“Men's faults do seldom to themselves appear.”

“Wilt thou whip thine own faults in other men?”

“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.”

“If little faults proceeding on distemperShall not be winked at, how shall we stretch our eyeWhen capital crimes, chewed, swallowed, and digested,Appear before us?”

“He is lifeless that is faultless.”

“You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder.”

“We do not look at our own faults; the eyes do not see themselves, they see the eyes of everybody else. We human beings are very slow to recognise our own weakness, our own faults, so long as we can lay the blame upon somebody else.”

“I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.”

“Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.”

“There is not so good an understanding between any two, but the exposure by the one of a serious fault in the other will produce a misunderstanding in proportion to its heinousness.”

“A true master of politics is able to calculate, down to the smallest fraction, the advantages to which he may put his very faults.”

“It's silly to try to escape other people's faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.”

“Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults.”

“A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them; but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up.”

“People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give them up.”

“People will allow their faults to be shown them; they will let themselves be punished for them; they will patiently endure many things because of them; they only become impatient when they have to lay them aside.”

“Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others.”

“Certain faults are necessary to the individual if he is to exist.”

“Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.”

“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.”

“We own up to minor failings, but only so as to convince others that we have no major ones.”

“We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.”

“One of the greatest and also the commonest of faults is for men to believe that, because they never hear their shortcomings spoken of, or read about them in cold print, others can have no knowledge of them. GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG, The Reflections of Lichtenberg We are often more agreeable through our faults than our good qualities.”

“If we had no faults, we would not derive so much pleasure from noting those of other people.”

“We easily forget our faults when no one knows them but ourselves.”

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

“Of all our faults, the one we avow most easily is idleness; we persuade ourselves that it is allied to all the peaceable virtues,and as for the others, that it does not destroy them utterly, but only suspends the exercise of their functions.”

“Were we faultless, we would not derive such satisfaction from remarking the faults of others.”

“Pride has a greater share than goodness in the reproofs we give other people for their faults; and we chide them not so much to make them mend those faults as to make them believe that we ourselves are without fault.”

“Weakness is the only fault that is incorrigible.”

“Great men should not have great faults.”

“Solemnity is a device of the body to hide the faults of the mind.”

“People are often vain of their passions, even of the worst, but envy is a passion so timid and shame-faced that no one ever dare avow her.”

“The blindness of men is the most dangerous effect of their pride; it seems to nourish and augment it; it deprives them of knowledge of remedies which can solace their miseries and can cure their faults.”

“Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.”

“The smallest fault of women who give themselves up to love is to love.”

“The greatest fault of a penetrating wit is to go beyond the mark.”

“Immodest creature, you do not want a woman who will accept your faults, you want the one who pretends you are faultless - one who will caress the hand that strikes her and kiss the lips that lie to her.”

“There are some people upon whom their very faults and failings sit gracefully; and there are others whose very excellencies and accomplishments do not become them.”

“We often select envenomed praise which, by a reaction upon those we praise, shows faults we could not have shown by other means.”

“What we cut off from our other faults is very often but so much added to our pride.”

“In the intercourse of life, we please more by our faults than by our good qualities.”

“We should not be much concerned about faults we have the courage to own.”

“The greatest part of our faults are more excusable than the methods that are commonly taken to conceal them.”

“Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.”

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

“We often make use of envenomed praise, that reveals on the rebound, as it were, defects in those praised which we dare not exposeany other way.”

“We endeavor to make a virtue of the faults we are unwilling to correct.”