Fault Quotes

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Condemn the fault and not the actor of it? — William Shakespeare
No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature. — Aristotle
The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those persons who find fault with small and insignificant details. — William Hazlitt
To be silent is but a small virtue; but it is a serious fault to reveal secrets. — Unknown Author
Shakespeare never had six lines together without a fault. Perhaps you may find seven, but this does not refute my general assertion. — Samuel Johnson
In love quarrels the party that loves the most is always most willing to acknowledge the greater fault. — Walter Scott
Be eager to lend a patient ear to the opinions of others and think long and hard whether whoever finds fault has reason or not… — Leonardo da Vinci
Every fault of the mind becomes more conspicuous and more guilty in proportion to the rank of the offender — Juvenal
The essential fault of surrealism is that it invents without discovering. To make a clam play an accordion is to invent not to discover. The… — Wallace Stevens
One fault begets another; one crime renders another necessary. — Robert Southey
They who once engage in iniquitous designs miserably deceive themselves when they think that they will go so far and no farther; one fault begets… — Robert Southey
Necessity, that great refuge and excuse for human frailty, breaks through all law; and he is not to be accounted in fault whose crime is… — Blaise Pascal
Nothing is good but mediocrity. The majority has settled that, and finds fault with him who escapes it at whichever end... To leave the mean… — Blaise Pascal
Use encouragement. Make the fault seem easy to correct. — Dale Carnegie
I lost my job as an art salesman. It was the customer's fault. He wanted to buy the wrong paintings. — Vincent Van Gogh
A servile race Who, in mere want of fault, all merit place; Who blind obedience pay to ancient schools, Bigots to Greece, and slaves to… — Charles Churchill
You'll understand, I'm sure that I'm chasing the merest sliver of color. It's my own fault. I want to grasp the intangible. It's terrible how… — Claude Monet
Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement. — Otto Weininger
If we plant a flower or a shrub and water it daily it will grow so tall that in time we shall need a spade… — Teresa of Avila
Less shame a greater fault would palliate. — Dante Alighieri

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