Faults Quotes - Page 20

Blush at your faults.

The downside is, if somebody doesn't like it, then it's like "oh my god, ok its really your fault."

Set-backs in efforts to implement an ideal do not prove that the ideal is wrong...

He who flatters a man is his enemy. he who tells him of his faults is his maker.

I was fortunate enough to never really be bullied. Maybe one time in middle school, but it was my fault. I had said something to someone, and they waited for me outside for a month until finally I put my dukes up and ran out. It was completely my fault.

It is a fatal fault to reason whilst observing, though so necessary beforehand and so useful afterwards.

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

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

To copy faults is want of sense.

Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.

My fault now is making my plays too short.

I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of Faults than I had imagined, but I had the Satisfaction of seeing them diminish.

You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.

How we love to blame others for our misfortunes! Almost every individual who has lost money in stock speculation has on the tip of his tongue an explanation which he trots out to show that it wasn't his own fault at all.... Hardly one loser has the manliness to say frankly, "I was wrong.

No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature.

It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.

He is all fault who has no fault at all.

Avoid Extremes; and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.

A tendancy to melancholy...let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.

It was the fault of David Trezeguet, who made me do one drink of vodka after another. I slept in the bathtub. Now I hold my vodka much better.

Contemporary poets are skeptical and suspicious even, or perhaps especially, about themselves. They publicly confess to being poets only reluctantly, as if they were a little ashamed of it. But in our clamorous times it's much easier to acknowledge your faults, at least if they're attractively packaged, than to recognize your own merits, since these are hidden deeper and you never quite believe in them yourself.

I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults.

I have a tendency, after a play of mine is produced, to look back on it disparagingly, seeing only its faults; before production, I see only its virtues.

The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those persons who find fault with small and insignificant details.

England, with all thy faults I love thee still, My country!