Defects Quotes · Page 6

By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

God sees us with the eyes of a Father. He sees our defects, errors and blemishes. But He also sees our value.

— Max Lucado

Gold is the fool's curtain, which hides all his defects from the world.

— Owen Feltham

In our plain defects we already know the brotherhood of man.

— Christopher Fry

He had a defect, which to a comic might be fatal. He wasn't funny.

— Henny Youngman

One of the biggest defects in life is the inability to ask for help.

— Robert Kiyosaki

“Any defects in our features amount to negative features.”

— Anonymous

Your defects are the ways that glory gets manifested ... That's where the Light enters you.

— Rumi

The love of Americans for their country is not an indulgent, it is an exacting and chastising love; they cannot tolerate its…

— Jacques Maritain

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

Defect in manners is usually the defect of fine perceptions. Men are too coarsely made for the delicacy of beautiful carriage and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It was in the defects that they [servants] invariably acquired that I learned of my own natural, invariable defects, and their character…

— Marcel Proust

Excess of love, did ye say? There was no excess, there was defect. She loved her son too little, not too much.…

— Anonymous

Every human perfection is allied to a defect into which it threatens to pass, but it is also true that every defect…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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

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

Did you ever notice how easy it is to forgive a person any number of faults for one endearing characteristic, for a…

— Shirley Hazzard

She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox. In this case,…

— Truman Capote

Constancy has nothing virtuous in itself, independently of the pleasure it confers, and partakes of the temporizing spirit of vice in proportion…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good…

— Haruki Murakami

To overestimate the originality of one's thoughts is perhaps a less serious defect than being unaware of their newness. There is a…

— Eric Hoffer

The fancies that take their monstrous birth from the spinelessness and boredom of usurped wealth bring in their wake every defect ...…

— Jean Lorrain

Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

True Christianity, which will last forever, comes from the gospel words of Christ not from the epistles of Paul. The writings of…

— Ernest Renan

If nature has been frugal in her gifts and endowments, there is the more need of art to supply her defects. If…

— David Hume

The whole gospel of Karl Marx can be summed up in a single sentence: Hate the man who is better off than…

— Henry Hazlitt

When a child loses his parent, they are called an orphan. When a spouse loses her or his partner, they are called…

— Ronald Reagan

The factory of love encompasses all, but on some days, does it seem to be one of suffocation, squeezing its target too…

— Criss Jami

One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index.

— Lafcadio Hearn

The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.

— Isaac D'Israeli

Use your faults, use your defects; then you're going to be a star.

— Edith Piaf

It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In a true zero-defects approach, there are no unimportant items.

— Phil Crosby

There are certain defects which, well-mounted, glitter like virtue itself.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.

— William Hazlitt

The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.

— Marquis de Sade

Afflictions are... if we can so take them, our share in the Passion of Christ

— C. S. Lewis

Fools are apt to imitate only the defects of their betters.

— Jonathan Swift

To be a woman, if not a defect, is at least a peculiarity.

— Simone de Beauvoir

Whoever recounts to you the faults of your neighbour will doubtless expose your defects to others.

— Anonymous