Quotes About Faults

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud,if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair, if they were not cherished by our virtues.

Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides.

But you gods will give us Some faults to make us men.

You shall find there a man who is the abstract of all faults that all men follow.

A hero without faults is like an omelet without little bits of eggshell in it.

You deserve someone better than me. Someone young and idealistic…someone who can experience things for the first time along with you. I'm not always kind, and I have more faults than I'd care to name. All I can promise is that I'll want you until my last breath.

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch one another and find sympathy. We differ widely enough in our nobler qualities. It is in our follies that we are at one. Some of us are pious, some of us are generous. Some few of us are honest, comparatively speaking; and some, fewer still, may possibly be truthful. But in vanity and kindred weaknesses we can all join hands.

No one is perfect. Everybody does stupid things.

Criticism is the disapproval of people, not for having faults, but having faults different from your own.

Should one see a wise man who, like a revealer of treasures, points out faults and reproves, let one associate with such a wise person for the benefits he shall receive.

The best way to know your faults is to notice which ones you accuse others of.

The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct.

Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.

By themselves, character and integrity do not accomplish anything. But their absence faults everything else. Here, therefore, is the one area where weakness is a disqualification by itself rather than a limitation on performance capacity and strength.

But to observe our neighbor's faults with the intention of looking down upon them or of detracting them . . . is sinful.

We made too many wrong mistakes.

In short, your good points will become your faults, your faults will be vices, and your virtues crime.

Like most spoiled children, she tyrannized over those who loved her, and kept her blandishments for those who were indifferent. Her faults grew with her growth, and her parents were to gather the bitter fruits of this disastrous education. At the age of nineteen Emilie de Fontaine had not yet been pleased to make a choice from among the many young men whom her father's politics brought to his entertainments.

All reality is iconoclastic. The earthly beloved, even in this life, incessantly triumphs over your mere idea of her. And you want her to; you want her with all her resistances, all her faults, all her unexpectedness. That is, in her foursquare and independent reality. And this, not any image or memory, is what we are to love still; after she is dead.

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

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

Vietnam's Communist Party is one-party rule but we also have principles of democracy and accountability of the leaders. Otherwise the faults would be blamed on the entire group and merits would be credited to the individual.

But ain't it always the way, Birdie, that the easiest faults to find in other people are the ones you got yourself?

here's a thing I've learned: Perfection is deception. An illusion. It's a carefully curated but false narrative. The golden family you think you know from the luxury home down the street—they're not who you believe they are. They have faults, secrets. Sometimes dark and terrible ones.