Faults Quotes · Page 100

Faults! I adore faults! I can never find too many in any creature.

— Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

The writing in mathematics text is not only laconic to a fault; it is cold, monotonous, dry, dull, and even ungrammatical... The…

— Morris Kline

Scan not a friend with a microscopic glass, you know his faults, now let the foibles pass.

— George Harrison

I am so sorry. I wish you knew even one tenth of one percent of how sorry I am. ...It was my…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.

— Thomas Gray

Contemporary poets are skeptical and suspicious even, or perhaps especially, about themselves. They publicly confess to being poets only reluctantly, as if…

— Wislawa Szymborska

It's like male geeks don't know how to deal with real live women, so they just assume it's a user interface problem.…

— Douglas Coupland

When the New Yorker turned down work, they turned it down in such an elaborately gentlemanly way making apologies for their own…

— Garrison Keillor

Before you accuse someone make sure you have all your evidence.

— Anonymous

When my mother gets a prompt 'Do you want to download this?' she's going to say yes. It's disingenuous for Microsoft to…

— Bruce Schneier

[The South] is ****ed for its virtues and praised for its faults, and there are those who wish its annihilation. But most…

— Richard M. Weaver

It's not my fault so much as my genius,

— Richelle Mead

No weakness of the human mind has more frequently incurred animadversion, than the negligence with which men overlook their own faults, however…

— Samuel Johnson

If [being confident stems from] a self-esteem issue, it's important to embrace the things you might define as so-called imperfections - because…

— John Slattery

Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.

— Oscar Wilde

Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Everybody has something wrong with them.

— Ernest Hemingway

I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would take care of.

— Kate Smith

Scotland is a much lighter and more fun place than I thought it was. I was miserable when I was there. But…

— Craig Ferguson

I have undertaken, you see, to write not only my life, but my opinions also; hoping and expecting that your knowledge of…

— Laurence Sterne

I'm a Christian now. The things that drove me crazy growing up was how everyone works at fault-finding with different religions. The…

— Paul Walker

Now "professional" seems to be whoever you went to school with. It constitutes your nuclear world. And that's the fault of the…

— Lawrence Weiner

You must cease from looking at human mistakes and look at successes; cease from seeing faults and see virtues.

— Wallace D. Wattles

The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs;…

— St. Jerome

Defects and weakness in men's understandings, as well as other faculties, come from want of a right use of their own minds;…

— John Locke