Quotes About Faults

Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats; neither fear nor shame can cure them.

Dont' try to own problems or faults that aren't yours. It's not a good longterm strategy.

I think one of the few faults in Dickens is that mostly his lead characters are blanks - who is David Copperfield, who is Oliver Twist? And yet he takes such joy in populating the rest of his novels with these fantastic, grotesque people like Pecksmith and so on.

Communication between band-mates is imperative. Communication is the key to any healthy relationship. If I need to be checked, I expect to hear it put in plain words what my faults are, and give my band-mates the ultimate consideration by shutting up and listening, then acting on the advice given. Same goes for anyone else in any band.

The hypocrite looks for faults; the believer looks for excuses.

Complaining is finding faults, wisdom is finding solutions

When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults.

Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth: If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt.

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

There may be one fault in a man that conceals a thousand qualities, or one excellence that conceals a thousand faults. The little indicates much.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit that angers her more than the faults.

Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud; Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun, And loathsome canker lies in sweetest bud. All men make faults.

Just think, if it weren't for marriage, men would go through life thinking they had no faults at all.

Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.

Whosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections.

Good and bad, strengths and faults, he was hers forever.

To what faults do you feel most indulgent? To the ones that arise from urgent material needs.

Mother Florence had once told her that jealousy was the worst of all faults because it prevented a person from being who they were born to be.

It is certainly human to make mistakes, but there are some human beings who make more than others, and they are called fools.

He was indulgent to women and to the poor, oppressed by the weight of society. The faults of women, children, and servants, he said, and of the weak, the poor and the ignorant, are the faults of husbands, fathers and masters, and of the strong, the rich and the learned. He also said: Teach the ignorant as much as you can. Society is to blame for not giving free education; it is responsible for the darkness it creates. The soul in darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness.

We are often more agreeable through our faults than our good qualities.

If we had no faults ourselves, we should not take such pleasure in observing those of others.

We confess small faults to insinuate that we have no great ones.