Faults Quotes - Page 14

We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.

Only great men have great faults.

If anyone should tell you that a particular person has spoken critically of you, don't bother with excuses or defenses. Just smile and reply, "I guess that person doesn't know about all my other faults. Otherwise, he wouldn't have mentioned only these."

If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.

Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.

Excess and deficiency are equally at fault.

Women tend to immediately take responsibility if somebody messes up with both of us saying it's our fault. Men are quite happy for it to be your fault it seems like.

The political disfunction that has brought about the shutdown and now threatens default, isn't so much gridlock. It is exposing the fatal flaw in our Constitution and highly distinct system of government. In other words, it's the Constitution's fault. Something truly catastrophic was bound to happen sooner or later.

A man in public life expects to be sneered at -- it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself.

Obstinacy is a fault of temperament. Stubbornness and intolerance of contradiction result from a special kind of egotism, which elevates above everything else the pleasure of its autonomous intellect, to which others must bow.

Vin: I don't know -- and it's all your fault, you know. I used to understand everything. Now it's all confused. Kelsier: Yes, we've messed you up right properly.

Something goes wrong, I yell at them -'Fix it'- whether it's their fault or not. You can only really yell at the players you trust.

I was born fat and have always been, which was just fine and even healthy and cute until I turned ten or so. Puberty hit like a hurricane and brought a new set of rules. All of a sudden it was my fault I was chubby.

Suspicion may be no fault, but showing it may be a great one.

I am an arrogant and impatient listener, but in the case of a few composers, a very few, when I hear a work I do not like, I am convinced that it is my own fault. Verdi is one of those composers.

To me He is all fault who hath no fault at all: For who loves me must have a touch of earth.

Never find fault with the absent.

Of chess it has often been said that life is not long enough for it - but that is the fault of life, not chess.

Wrong people are wrong not because of their faults but because of their presumed virtues.

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

Pride (of all others the most dang'rous fault) Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought.

Mickey's a nice fellow who never does anyone any harm, who gets into scrapes through no fault of his own but always manages to come up grinning.

Find fault, when you must find fault, in private, if possible; and some time after the offense, rather than at the time.

The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.

Faults They came to tell your faults to me, They named them over one by one; I laughed aloud when they were done, I knew them all so well before,-- Oh, they were blind, too blind to see Your faults had made me love you more.