I have no confidence in a man whose faults you cannot see.

Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others. A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor…

— Augustus Hare

“If our eyes could see everything, every man would see his own faults.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

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

— Thomas Gray

I made Man with too many faults. Yet I love him. And if he wishes, I have a home above for him.

— Stevie Smith

A rich man's faults are covered with money, but a surgeon's faults are covered with earth.

— Abraham Verghese

Every man has something to do which he neglects, every man has faults to conquer which he delays to combat.

— Samuel Johnson

Every man has his faults; I have and so have you - you will allow me to say so!

— Clara Schumann

Make no man your idol, for the best man must have faults; and his faults will insensibly become yours, in addition to your own.

— Washington Allston

I have not hated the man, but his faults.

— Martial

“Don't begin to tell me how much you can judge a man by his faults”

— Mitsuba Takanashi

I like a man with faults, especially when he knows it. To err is human

— Hugh Prather

The essence of a man is found in his faults.

— Francis Picabia

“People often say that, by pointing out to a man the faults of his mistress, you succeed only in strengthening his atachment to her,…

— Marcel Proust

“Silly…but the mere issuing of a command always inspires confidence. It doesn't matter whether it is a necessary command, or even a correct one…it…

— Humphrey Cobb

Surely modesty never hurt any cause; and the confidence of man seems to me to be much like the wrath of man.

— John Tillotson