Quotes About Faults

He has not observed on the nature of vanity who does not know that it is omnivorous--that it has no choice in its food--that it is fond to talk even of its own faults and vices, as what will excite surprise and draw attention, and what will pass at worst for openness and candor.

I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful.

The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.

To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense

To copy faults is want of sense.

Of all faults the one she most despised in others was the want of bravery; the meanness of heart which leads to untruth.

You love another person not because of his virtues- that is infatuation- but in spite of his faults," he said to her. "Love has no place for idealization.

God loves His people despite their sins and faults.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. —historian and essayist Thomas Carlyle

When people are lame, they love to blame.

Families tend to artificially divide the world, imbuing one member with all the attributes and another with all the faults. But it's never that way.

I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred.

That's a handsome maid, he said to Oak. But she has her faults, said Gabriel. True, farmer. And the greatest of them is—well, what it is always. Beating people down? ay, 'tis so. O no. What, then? Gabriel, perhaps a little piqued by the comely traveller's indifference, glanced back to where he had witnessed her performance over the hedge, and said, Vanity.

a man cannot embrace a woman's faults until he loves her. A woman embraces the faults and then falls in love.

Every man thinks with himself, I am well, I am wise, and laughs at others; and ?tis a general fault amongst them all, that which our forefathers approved?diet, apparel, humours, customs, manners?we deride and reject in our time as absurd.

God's merits are so transcendent that it is not surprising his faults should be in reasonable proportion.

Resilience engineering tells us that we should routinely inject faults into the system, doing them frequently, to make them less painful.

Improving daily work is even more important than doing daily work.' The Third Way is all about ensuring that we're continually putting tension into the system, so that we're continually reinforcing habits and improving something. Resilience engineering tells us that we should routinely inject faults into the system, doing them frequently, to make them less painful.

To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.

A man has virtues enough if, on account of them, he deserves forgiveness for his faults.

Varias veces he sido censurado por faltas que mi censor no tuvo el ingenio o la energía de cometer.

A man without weaknesses serves only to make everyone else conscious of his own imperfections. A primitive poet named Tennyson once wrote: 'He is all fault who has no fault at all.

A man without weaknesses serves only to make everyone else conscious of his own imperfections. A primitive poet named Tennyson once wrote: 'He is all fault who has no fault at all.' 

I want to transform rage into creative energy and guilt into a mocking acceptance of my faults; I want to sweep away arrogance and vanity.