Defect Quotes

148 quotes by 128 authors

I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect. — Tennessee Williams
All false practices and affections of knowledge are more odious to God, and deserve to be so to men, than any want or defect of… — Thomas Sprat
Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them. — Jawaharlal Nehru
Without a doubt, one of the things which keeps us from attaining perfection is our tongue. When one has reached the point of no longer… — Saint Francis de Sales
The factory of love encompasses all, but on some days, does it seem to be one of suffocation, squeezing its target too tightly? And on… — Criss Jami
Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in… — Thomas Fuller
For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect. — Mason Cooley
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 me any better,… — Junot Diaz
William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect. — Benjamin Disraeli
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect. — William Hazlitt
These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and… — Steve Jobs
Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they… — C.S. Lewis
Sickness is mankind's greatest defect. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid… — John Major
Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull. — W. Somerset Maugham
There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need,… — Herman Melville
Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance. — John Henry Newman
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them. — Bertrand Russell

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