Faults Quotes

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

We in the media are just people with all of people's faults.

I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.

I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.

We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues.

To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense.

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.

People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.

It is tragic that the Fuehrer should have the whole nation behind him with the single exception of the Army generals. In my opinion it is only by action that they can now atone for their faults of lack of character and discipline.

Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.

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

Learn to know every man under you, get under his skin, know his faults. Then cater to him - with kindness or roughness as his case may demand.

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.

The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.

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

However, yes, especially as one gets older, you know, you really hope that your music will become more generally available, even though some of the performances might be riddled with faults.

You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder.

Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him.

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

All the faults of the age come from Christianity and journalism. Christianity, of course, but why journalism?

Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.

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

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."