Quotes About Faults

La sciagurata ha troppi difetti di suo per tollerarne di simili in chiunque altro.

We are not to reflect on the wickedness of men but to look to the image of God in them, an image which, covering and obliterating their faults, an image which, by its beauty and dignity, should allure us to love and embrace them.

He knows his own faults, but also knows his qualities.

Observe your enemies for they first find out your faults.

Not using faults does not mean that one does not have them.

People are mostly so crookedly clever that they will never find any faults, follies or flaws in the wrongdoings of a self-seeker person till getting from him/her for merely own-self all undue favour.

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

Fairies] had faults, but they were perfectly themselves. Vidia, for instance, who was the fastest flier, didn't care about anybody but herself. She was by no means perfect, but she was perfectly Vidia. Fairies were concentrated, like bouillon cubes.

The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.

Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.

If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.

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

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

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

But in an account such as this, it is better to be scrupulous about your faults, as about all your other actions. Otherwise no one will understand why you made the decisions that you made.

I don't feel pleased with myself while recording this cruelty, even though it was only a cruelty to a doll. It's a vengeful side of my nature that I am sorry to say I have failed to subdue entirely. But in an account such as this, it is better to be scrupulous about your faults, as about all your other actions. Otherwise no one will understand why you made the decisions that you made.

Picking out Vince Russo's faults could be a full-time job for somebody.

You prefer her faults to other people's perfection.

And so you prefer her faults to other people's perfections?

Whatever was wrong, in either her or her brother, he would encourage by laughing at, if not by actually praising: people little know the injury they do to children by laughing at their faults, and making a pleasant jest of what their true friends have endeavoured to teach them to hold in grave abhorrence.

I have my faults, just like everyone else, I know that, but they thoroughly exaggerate everything.

One of the baffling things about life is that the purposes of institutions may be ideal, while their administration, dependent upon the faults and weaknesses of human beings, may be bad.

Small faults and virtues are for daily life. The big ones are for emergencies.

Is it not far better to abhor sins by the remembrance of others' faults, than by repentance of thine own follies?