Defects Quotes

I'm a good person, but with many defects.

— Enrique Iglesias

Faults and defects every work of man must have.

— Samuel Johnson

All authors to their own defects are blind.

— John Dryden

Indeed envy is a defect; worse than any other.

— Rumi

Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Never judge a work of art by its defects.

— Washington Allston

“We cannot work effectively in a world of defects.”

— Anonymous

The cause of a wrong taste is a defect of judgment.

— Edmund Burke

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

— William Hazlitt

We are made ridiculous less by our defects than by the affectation of qualities which are not ours.

— John Lancaster Spalding

Attainment is a poor measure of capacity, and ignorance no proof of defect.

— Cyril Burt

Ten men have failed from defect in morals, where one has failed from defect in intellect.

— Horace Mann

If we wish to keep peace with our neighbours, we should never remind any one of his natural defects.

— Philip Neri

Defects are not free. Somebody makes them, and gets paid for making them.

— W. Edwards Deming

The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature.

— Aristotle

An object is frequently not seen, from not knowing how to see it, rather than from any defect of the organ of…

— Charles Babbage

This policy of supplying by opposite and rival interests, the defect of better motives, might be traced through the whole system of…

— James Madison

It is remarkable that Lord Esher should be so much astray...We must conclude that an uncontrollable fondness for fiction forbade him to…

— Winston Churchill

The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the…

— Thomas Hobbes

The Constitution admittedly has a few defects and blemishes, but it still seems a hell of a lot better than the system…

— Robert Anton Wilson

I believe that obstinacy, or the dread of control and discipline, arises not so much from self-willedness as from a conscious defect…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Of course language is not an infallible guide, but it contains, with all its defects, a good deal of stored insight and…

— C. S. Lewis

Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world…

— Michel de Montaigne

The ancients of the ideal description, instead of trying to turn their impracticable chimeras, as does the modern dreamer, into social and…

— Herman Melville

It would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official act my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being Who rules over…

— George Washington

I am a strange compound of weakness and resolution! However, if I must suffer, I will endeavour to suffer in silence. There…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does…

— Saint Basil

A fatal defect in majority rule is that by its very nature it abolishes itself. Majority rule must inevitably become minority rule:…

— Mary Parker Follett

The East is the hearthside of America. Like any home, therefore, it has the defects of its virtues. Because it is a…

— Phyllis McGinley

As long as you cling to your self, you will wander right and left, day and night, for thousands of years; and…

— Sanai

As the reflections of our pride upon our defects are bitter, disheartening, and vexatious, so the return of the soul towards God…

— Francois Fenelon

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

If you investigate the matter deeply enough and widely enough, you will find that happiness eludes nearly all men despite the fact…

— Paul Brunton

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

[I]n my country, when they would say a man has no sense, they say, such an one has no memory; and when…

— Michel de Montaigne

The fact of the matter is that, since we are determined always to keep our feelings to ourselves, we have never given…

— Marcel Proust

But though Usury is in itself immoral, and justly condemned by every ethical code, its chief and worst defect in the particular…

— Hilaire Belloc

“He was looking at me like I was a very nice thing of his that wasn't working quite like it should, like…

— Catherine Lacey

My fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe; who presides in the councils of nations; and whose providential…

— George Washington