Faults Quotes

People accuse me of being Methody, but I'm not at all. The one thing I don't want people to see is me. I don't want them to be able to recognize my faults and failures and qualities, and I won't use those things to spark off emotions or to illustrate.

In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country.

It's easy to see the faults in people I know; it's hardest to see the good. Especially when the good isn't there.

Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

I might have faults but I'm not a big head.

I see no faults in the Church, and therefore let me be resurrected with the Saints, whether I ascend to heaven or descend to hell, or go to any other place. And if we go to hell, we will turn the devils out of doors and make a heaven of it.

The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity.

Activism isn't about holding your faults up to the light. That's what comedy is about, it's about saying, 'Look at this person who is so flawed and frail and damaged. And we're all this frail and damaged so let's laugh at it.'

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.

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

Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

The essence of a man is found in his faults.

Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect?

Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.

I work for him despite his faults and he lets me work for him despite my deficiencies.

I think people who have faults are a lot more interesting than people who are perfect.

While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.

The Pilgrim and the Puritan whom we honor tonight were men who did a great deal of work in the world. They had their faults and their - shortcomings, but they were not slothful in business and they were most fervent in spirit.

I may have many faults, but being wrong ain't one of them.

The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.

Focus on remedies, not faults.

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.

Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.

The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.

Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so much attention that a husband and wife, concentrating on their children, fail to notice each other's faults.

We make mistakes, we have our faults, and God knows some of us have more than our share, but when danger threatens and duty calls, we go smiling to our own funeral.

We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.

It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.