Quotes
Quotes about Fault
All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them.
Be England what she will,
With all her faults she is my country still.
England, with all thy faults I love thee still,
My country!
Wearers of rings and chains!
Pray do not take the pains
To set me right.
In vain my faults ye quote;
I write as others wrote
On Sunium's hight.
Then farewell Horace, whom I hated so,--
Not for thy faults, but mine.
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. 1
His partners at the whist-club said
That he was faultless in his dealings.
Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null.
But friend, to me
He is all fault who hath no fault at all.
For who loves me must have a touch of earth.
The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung
To their first fault, and withered in their pride.
They are perfect; how else?--they shall never change:
We are faulty; why not?--we have time in store.
Just then, with a wink and a sly normal lurch,
The owl very gravely got down from his perch,
Walked round, and regarded his fault-finding critic
(Who thought he was stuffed) with a glance analytic.
The Law is the true embodiment
Of everything that's excellent.
It has no kind of fault or flaw,
And I, my Lords, embody the Law.
Confession of our faults is the next thing to innocency.
To conduct great matters and never commit a fault is above the force of human nature.
Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.
Lamachus chid a captain for a fault; and when he had said he would do so no more, "Sir," said he, "in war there is no room for a second miscarriage." Said one to Iphicrates, "What are ye afraid of?" "Of all speeches," said he, "none is so dishonourable for a general as ‘I should not have thought of it.'"
The greatest fault of a penetrating wit is to go beyond the mark.
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
It is more than a crime; it is a political fault," --words which I record, because they have been repeated and attributed to others.
Your faultâcore dumped.
When looking for faults use a mirror, not a telescope.
Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side.
My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.
Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.
