Quotes About Faults

There was a silence. Then Chiron said, "When I brought you both here, I had not decided yet what I would do. Thetis sees many faults, some that are and some that are not." His voice was unreadable again. Hope and despair flared and died in me by turns.

People often say that, by pointing out to a man the faults of his mistress, you succeed only in strengthening his atachment to her, because he does not believe you.

When Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962, only five Americans had previously been so honored. Accepting the prize in Stockholm, he gave an impassioned speech in which he argued that "the ancient commission of the writer has not changed. He is charged with exposing our many grievous faults and failures, with dredging up to the light our dark and dangerous dreams for the purpose of improvement.

How hard you work at correcting your faults reveals your character.

Tears throw a veil over our faults and allow us to accuse fate without fear or contradiction.

The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

But tongues are strangely loosened and are swift to denounce people's faults when the revenge of the person accused is no longer to be feared.

Anyone who criticizes you cares about your friendship. Anyone who makes light of your faults cares nothing about you.

The grace of novelty and the length of habit, though so very opposite to one another, yet agree in this, that they both alike keepus from discovering the faults of our friends.

No man is born without faults; he is the best who is influenced by the fewest.

A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults

I think the worst woman that ever existed would have made a man of very passable reputation - they are all better than us and their faults such as they are must originate with ourselves.

The most beautiful people are the ones that don't know they are. Love isn't blind it makes us see the beauty inside a person no matter their faults. Love focuses our minds on the positives instead of the negatives. Even though it can hurt, it is the best cure.

The human seed, this mass from which I was formed, is totally corrupt with faults and sins. The material itself is faulty. The clay, so to speak, out of which this vessel began to be formed is damnable. What more do you want? This is how I am; this is how all men are. Our very conception, the very growth of the foetus in the womb, is sin, even before we are born and begin to be human beings.

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.

Love blinds us to faults, hatred to virtues

Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.

Perfection can be achieved by no one, because perfection is achieved from faults- yet faults tear away the perfection in you.

Death has come and atoned for all. I have no grievance against the soul of the man before me. Instinctively do I recognise that it soars high above the gravest faults and the cruellest wrongs (and how admirable and full of significance is this instinct!). If there linger still a regret within me, it is not that I am unable to inflict suffering in my turn, but it is perhaps that my love was not great enough and that my forgiveness has come too late. …

Though the biggest fault of the big man is tolerated easily, the smallest fault of the little man is not endured at all!

Those faults we do not have, do not bother us.