Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.

I'll always keep you guessing. I'm living up to the name. It's powerful. That's just what I do.

— Future

The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which…

— Moliere

When a well-rounded character takes over, he doesn't lecture you about his history and how he is misunderstood. He lives his life, does things…

— Andrew Lam

We have been stuffed full of praise for mediocrity and had our foibles diagnosed away with hyphenated jargon and pop psychology.

— Kevin DeYoung

Most men call fretting a minor fault, a foible, and not a vice. There is no vice except drunkenness which can so utterly destroy…

— Helen Hunt Jackson

“Flaws weren't pariah; foibles were badges of character. Not something to be brushed away in Photoshop.”

— Peter Tieryas Liu

As intellectual as we think we are, you still trip, we still have human foibles, sexuality, all the different things to still make you…

— Robin Williams

Moskin has brought together with care and lucidity an inside history of American diplomacy written through the eyes of the many diplomats who conceived…

— Thomas R. Pickering

The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A man's foibles are what makes him lovable.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I learned that famous writers are people with foibles like anyone else and this helped me realize reaching their level of notoriety wasn't impossible.

— Kirby Wright

If, while hurrying ostensibly to the temple of truth, we hand the reins over to our personal interests which look aside at very different…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Fortunately for those who pay their court through such foibles, a fond mother, though, in pursuit of praise for her children, the most rapacious…

— Jane Austen

The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship.

— William Hazlitt

Our foibles are really what make us lovable.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe