Top 25 Faults Quotes of 877 - Page 17

Condemn the fault and not the actor of it?

Condemn the fault and not the actor of it?

Actors, Faults, Measure For Measure

'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 2, sc. 2, l. 37

Faults that are rich are fair.

Faults, Rich, Fairs

William Shakespeare (1793). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added Notes”, p.489

And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse, As patches set upon a little breach, Discredit more in hiding of the fault Than did the fault before it was so patch'd.

William Shakespeare

Time, Littles, Faults

William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.330

So may he rest, his faults lie gently on him!

William Shakespeare

Lying, Memorable, Faults

'Henry VIII' (1613) act 4, sc. 2, l. 31

Every man has a bag hanging before him, in which he puts his neighbour's faults, and another behind him in which he stows his own.

William Shakespeare

Men, Bags, Faults

William Shakespeare (1969). “Coriolanus”, p.172, CUP Archive

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

William Hazlitt

Friendship, Faults

William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1921, Delphi Classics

If you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out. Nothing can come out of you that is not in you. If when you are pressured, anger comes out, it is not the fault of the person who pressured.

Wayne Dyer

Orange Juice, Faults, Persons

In love quarrels the party that loves the most is always most willing to acknowledge the greater fault.

Walter Scott

Party, Faults, Quarrels

You must cease from looking at human mistakes and look at successes; cease from seeing faults and see virtues.

Wallace D. Wattles

Mistake, Looks, Faults

Wallace D. Wattles (2015). “Wallace D. Wattles Ultimate Collection – 10 Books in One Volume: The Science of Getting Rich, The Science of Being Well, The Science of Being Great, How to Get What You Want and more: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of Making of the Man Who Can or How to Promote Yourself and New Science of Living and Healing or Health Through New Thought and Fasting”, p.232, e-artnow

Translations increase the faults of a work and spoil its beauties.

Voltaire

Faults, Language, Increase

A fault is fostered by concealment.

Virgil

Philosophical, Faults, Concealment

I lost my job as an art salesman. It was the customer's fault. He wanted to buy the wrong paintings.

Vincent Van Gogh

Art, Jobs, Faults

A fault is sooner found than mended.

Ulpian Fulwell

Faults, Found

He that avoideth not small faults, by little and little falleth into greater.

Thomas a Kempis

Littles, Faults, Sin

Thomas a Kempis (2013). “The Imitation of Christ; Or, the Ecclesiastical Music”, p.68, Cambridge University Press

The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before.

Theodore Bikel

Air, Play, Faults

Everything is the director's fault - you can quote me on that. There are no excuses.

Steven Soderbergh

Directors, Faults, No Excuses

Interview with Scott Indrisek, believermag.com. August 1, 2006.

You can tell me anything you want to about investment, but you can't move no money of mine, so I know where all of mine is. Now, if we ain't got a lot, it's our fault.

Steve Harvey

Moving, Want, Faults

Source: www.finalcall.com

What cannot be changed cannot be blamed.

St. Jerome

Faults, Blame, Changed

Only those faults which we encounter in ourselves are insufferable to us in others.

Sophie Swetchine

Encounters, Faults, Insufferable

It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.

Samuel Richardson

Faults, Easier

Samuel Richardson (1980). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments: a facsimile reproduction”, Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint

Tediousness is the most fatal of all faults.

Samuel Johnson

Writing, Faults

Samuel Johnson, Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (1854). “Lives of the most eminent English poets: with critical observations on their works”, p.223