Idiocy is the female defect ... It is no worse than the male defect, which is lunacy. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“Never judge a work of art by its defects. They same is true with people.” — José N. Harris Copy Share Image
Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing. — 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
Let us stay at home: there we are decent. Let us not go out: our defects wait for us at the door,… — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
“When you have a defect, some people try not to see it only as a defect, but as your entire identity.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I am there where it is spoken that the universe is a defect in the purity of non-being. — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, and to… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
My thing is, I'm just way too harsh. It's an enormous impediment, and that's just the truth of it. It doesn't make… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, while recognizing… — Lawrence G. Lovasik Copy Share Image
By practicing the virtues we cultivate the soil from which healthy emotions sprout; by letting go of our character defects we drain… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the most serious human defects in all ages is procrastination, an unwillingness to accept personal responsibilities now. — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
Religion is never devoid of emotion, any more than love is. It is not a defect of religion, but rather its glory,… — D. Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
Affectation naturally counterfeits those excellences which are placed at the greatest distance from possibility of attainment, because, knowing our own defects, we… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
Julian was not insensible of the advantages of freedom. From his studies he had imbibed the spirit of ancient sages and heroes;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Scepticism commonly takes up the room left by defect of imagination, and is the very quality of mind most likely to seek… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
In fact, we will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things. We have to learn to… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
The dramatic art would appear to be rather a feminine art; it contains in itself all the artifices which belong to the… — Sarah Bernhardt Copy Share Image
Ionizing radiation may well be the most important single cause of cancer, birth defects and genetic disorders... The stakes for human health… — John Gofman Copy Share Image
We live in a world that treats the dead better than the living. We, the living are askers of questions and givers… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
Despair makes a despicable figure, and descends from a mean original. 'Tis the offspring of fear, of laziness and impatience; it argues… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding; and those who are conscious of their inferiority have the modesty not to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“His beauty claimed his defects for the part of him that made it possible, made him true.” — Jaime O'neill Copy Share Image
That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects. — John Webster Copy Share Image
It is an actor's defect. I want everybody to like me, so I'll say what I think will please them. — Jean Reno Copy Share Image
We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits. — W. Somerset Maugham 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
“People don't want to think about defects when they are drinking wine.” — Courtney Maum 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
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
“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
“Women never understand. We fall in love with their defects, not their perfection.” — Peter Danielson Copy Share Image
Even the good artisans fell into the same error as the poets; because they were good workmen they thought that they also… — Plato Copy Share Image
Great virtues may draw attention from defects, they cannot sanctify them. A pebble surrounded by diamonds remains a common stone, and a… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
