Quotes
Quotes about Fault
A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink- drop soileth the pure white page.
Confessed faults are half-mended.
They say, best men are moulded out of faults; And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad.
Love him who tells you your faults in private.
The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
Observe your enemies, for they first find your faults.
A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little "personal characteristics."
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.
Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs. [Lat., Suus quoque attributus est error: Sed non videmus, manticae quid in tergo est.]
Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults.] [Lat., Ea molestissime ferre homines debent quae ipsorum culpa ferenda sunt.]
It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others, and to forget his own. [Lat., Est proprium stultitiae aliorum vitia cernere, oblivisci suorum.]
Thou hast no faults, or I no faults can spy; Thou art all beauty, or all blindness I.
Men still had faults, and men will have them still; He that hath none, and lives as angels do, Must be an angel. - Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscomon,
Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth; If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt.
His very faults smack of the raciness of his good qualities.
Bad men excuse their faults, good men will leave them.
You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
Jupiter has placed upon us two wallets. Hanging behind each person's back he has given one full of his own faults; in front he has hung a heavy one full of other people's. [Lat., Peras imposuit Jupiter nobis duas. Propriis repletam vitiis post tergum dedit; Alienis ante pectus supendit gravem.]
Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home. [Lat., Quia, qui alterum incusat probi, eum ipsum se intueri oportet.]
He has no fault except that he has no fault. [Lat., Nihil peccat, nisi quod nihil peccat.]
The glorious fault of angels and of gods.
I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults.
They were all like one another as halfpence are, every one fault seeming monstrous till his fellow-fault came to match it.
Chide him for faults, and do it reverently, When you perceive his blood inclined to mirth, But, being moody, give him time and scope, Till that his passions, like a whale on ground, Confound themselves with working.
