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Quotes About Faults

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.
~ Unknown
God loves His people despite their sins and faults.
~ Jim George
But it should be Soon. Already I defend hotly Certain of our indefensible faults, Resent being reminded; already in my mind Our language becomes freighted with a richness No common tongue could offer, while the mountains Are like nowhere on earth, and the wide rivers.
~ Joan Didion
They say best men are molded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad.
~ William Shakespeare
If you want people to notice your faults, start giving advice.
~ Unknown
Never leave a true relationship for few faults! Nobody is perfect, nobody is correct & at the end, affection is always greater then perfection...
~ Unknown
We always remember our faults when they are known to people.
~ Unknown
Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.
~ Voltaire
And we are introduced to Goodness every day, Even in drawing-rooms among a crowd of faults; He has a name like Billy and is almost perfect, But wears a stammer like a decoration.
~ W. H. Auden
America has many faults, one of the worst being that Americans always want answers to everything, and when you tell them there aren't any, are very upset. But when they are in a tough spot they do look forward...
~ W.H. Auden
To acknowledge our faults when we are blamed, is modesty; to discover them to one's friends in ingenuousness, is confidence; but to preach them to all the world, if one does not take care, is pride.
~ Confucius
We should not be much concerned about faults we have the courage to own.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Truly it is an evil to be full of faults," said Pascal, "but it is a still greater evil to be full of them, and to be unwilling to recognize them.
~ Philip Yancey
He practices his faults, and you practice your bitterness. You are both practicing divorce.
~ Debi Pearl
Impatience is not the least of your faults, Malik, it is a kind of greed and someday it may see you undone.
~ Isobelle Carmody
There is little I can tell you about Aglaura beyond the things its own inhabitants have always repeated: an array of proverbial virtues, of equally proverbial faults, a few eccentricities, some punctilious regard for rules.
~ Italo Calvino
I see my love of country imbued with a responsibility to bear witness to its faults.
~ Dan Rather
The art of natural education consists in ignoring the faults of children nine times out of ten, in avoiding immediate interference, which is usually a mistake, and devoting one's whole vigilance to the control of the environment in which the child is growing up, to watching the education which is allowed to go on by itself.
~ Ellen Key
Each one of us has a particular virtue and faults that make the process of becoming like Jesus different.
~ Mother Angelica
This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.
~ Haile Selassie
It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues.
~ Mason Cooley
Wrong people are wrong not because of their faults but because of their presumed virtues.
~ William A. Dembski
People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.
~ Elizabeth Gaskell