I have the defect of being more sincere than persons wish.

The worst defect in the world would be to consider yourself free from faults. Being too greatly saddened by one's faults can come from…

— Rose Philippine Duchesne

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

— James Russell Lowell

“If youth is a defect, it is one that we outgrow too soon.”

— Robert Lowell

“To be perfect, one lacks only a defect.”

— Karl Kraus

“When you have a defect, some people try not to see it only as a defect, but as your entire identity.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

The want of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

— Jonathan Swift

Being positive may be a character defect of mine.

— Quentin Blake

Art is never defect-free. Things that are remarkable never meet spec, because that would make them standardized, not worth talking about.

— Seth Godin

Ignorance at twenty-two isn't a structural defect.

— Jesse Lauriston Livermore

Look, no matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don’t see what we could be. We…

— Mitch Albom

If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.

— Robert Lowell

I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of…

— Tennessee Williams

...My sister Doreena who never lifted a royal finger growing up because she had the heart defect that we later found out was a…

— Kathryn Stockett

Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Elegance comes of no breeding, but of birth.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“They can only take what you give them.”

— Anonymous