There is hardly any personal defect... which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Change of ministers amounts to nothing. One goes out, another comes in, and still the same measures, vices, and extravagances are pursued.… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Did you ever notice how easy it is to forgive a person any number of faults for one endearing characteristic, for a… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
Moral virtue is a mean . . . between two vices, one of excess and the other of defect; . . .… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derby's] which are numerous, one provision is conspicuous by its presence and another by its… — John Russell, 1st Earl Russell Copy Share Image
But Thee, but Thee, O sovereign Seer of time, But Thee, O poets' Poet, Wisdom's Tongue, But Thee, O man's best Man,… — Sidney Lanier Copy Share Image
A great man la an abstraction of some one excellence; but whoever fancies himself an abstraction of excellence, so far from being… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects. — Edgar Ramirez Copy Share Image
And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is willfully to misunderstand them. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox. In this case,… — Truman Capote 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
A nun I know once told me she kept begging God to take her character defects away from her. After years of… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The defects of human nature afford us opportunities of exercising our philosophy, the best employment of our virtues. If all men were… — Moliere Copy Share Image
Afflictions are... if we can so take them, our share in the Passion of Christ — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
We should endeavor practically in our lives to correct all the defects which our imagination detects. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The ridiculous is produced by any defect that is unattended by pain, or fatal consequences; thus, an ugly and deformed countenance does… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A legislator must know how to take advantage of even the defects of those he wants to govern. The art consists in… — Napoleon Bonaparte 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
For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
The whole gospel of Karl Marx can be summed up in a single sentence: Hate the man who is better off than… — Henry Hazlitt 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
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