None but great men are capable of having great flaws. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects. — Edgar Ramirez Copy Share Image
Idiocy is the female defect ... It is no worse than the male defect, which is lunacy. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“I have all the defects of other people and yet everything they do seems to me inconceivable.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate. — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
The radical defect in Christianity is that it tried to win the world by a bribe, and it has become a nullity. — Ouida Copy Share Image
Each one projects his own defects over the others, each one see in other his own defects. — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
“Women never understand. We fall in love with their defects, not their perfection.” — Peter Danielson Copy Share Image
If we wish to keep peace with our neighbor, we should never remind anyone of his natural defects. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The most common and the monstrous defect in the education of the day is that children fail to acquire the habit of… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
Every human perfection is allied to a defect into which it threatens to pass, but it is also true that every defect… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Even though I love my mother, I didn't want to make an idealized portrait of her. I'm fascinated more by her defects… — Pedro Almodovar Copy Share Image
Excess of love, did ye say? There was no excess, there was defect. She loved her son too little, not too much.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents. A transcendent talent draws so largely on his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effiminated by position of nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
At the same time believers realise that the defects they see in one another are tests from Allah. For this reason they… — Harun Yahya Copy Share Image
I mean, I get letters in the mail because I had a heart defect when I was one, I had surgeries and… — Shaun White Copy Share Image
I think when you're an adult you start to like the very things that make you different. If you obsess about some… — Audrey Tautou Copy Share Image
Write on your doors the saying wise and old, "Be bold! be bold!" and everywhere - "Be bold; Be not too bold!"… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor… — John Adams Copy Share Image
One as deformed and horrible as myself, could not deny herself to me. My companion must be of the same species, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
“Reckless. Insatiable. Deceptive. Clingy. Vain. Dismissive. Trivial. Violent. Tactless. Controlling. Impractical. Fearful. Think of one example in your past where you exhibited… — Alexandra Katehakis Copy Share Image
If a painting of a tree was only the exact representation of the original, so that it looked just like the tree,… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
It may be considered as an objection inherent in the principle, that as every appeal to the people would carry an implication… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Motors make noise and that tells you about the feelings and attitudes that went into it. Something was more important than sensory… — Philip Slater Copy Share Image
I soon began to sense a fundamental perceptual difficulty among male scholars (and some female ones) for which 'sexism' is too facile… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the… — Cleveland Amory Copy Share Image
The fact of the matter is that, since we are determined always to keep our feelings to ourselves, we have never given… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
So you see,' said Stepan Arkadyich, 'you're a very wholesome man. That is your virtue and your defect. You have a wholesome… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
It is a fearful thing to hate whom God hath loved. To look upon another-his weaknesses, his sins, his faults, his defects… — Tikhon of Zadonsk Copy Share Image
We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Correct becomes defect. Good becomes ominous. People's delusions have certainly lasted long. — Laozi Copy Share Image
