Quotes
Quotes about Fault
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.
Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike; Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend, A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend.
When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the man who confided it.
Because authority, though it err like others, Hath yet a kind of medicine in itself That skins the vice o' th' top; go to your bosom, Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know That's like my brother's fault; if it confess A natural guiltiness such as is his, Let it not sound a thought upon your tongue Against my brother's life.
You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder.
O, what a world of vile ill-favour'd faults Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year! -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 4.
Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it? -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2.
They say, best men are moulded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad. -Measure for Measure. Act v. Sc. 1.
Every one fault seeming monstrous till his fellow-fault came to match it. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.
Less shame a greater fault would palliate. [Lat., Maggior difetto men vergogna lava.]
The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those persons who find fault with small and insignificant details.
The fault rests with the gods, who have made her so stupid. [Lat., La faute en est aux dieux, qui la firent si bete.]
In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day.
To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the defect.
Go, go, good countrymen, and for this fault Assemble all the poor men of your sort; Draw them to the Tiber banks, and weep your tears Into the channel, till the lowest stream Do kiss the most exalted shores of all.
On the twelfth day I left it, my Unix gave to me: Twelve boards a-blowing; Eleven chips a-smoking; Ten ports a-jamming; Nine floppies frying; Eight gettys dying; Seven blown partitions; Six bad controllers; Five core dumps; Four bad blocks; Three heads crashed; Two faulty tapes; And a burnt-out V.D.T. On the thirteenth day I started adapting my Nintendo for the VME bus.
In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that failures are not fault!
The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that's laughable is vanity.
The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that's laughable is vanity.
The first time you see Winston Churchill you see all his faults and the rest of your life you spend discovering his virtues.
People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting.
O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year.
Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.
