Fault Quotes

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Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things… — Oscar Wilde
There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams -- not through her own fault, but because of the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more. — Mark Twain
Nothing can work damage to me except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me and never am a real sufferer except… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings. — William Shakespeare
I ask you, is it the fig tree's fault that it's not the season for figs? What kind of thing is that to do to… — Yann Martel
Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame. — Stephen King
Those were happier days, when there was still close friendship at times between folk of different race, even between Dwarves and Elves.' It was not… — J.R.R. Tolkien
If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault. — Orson Scott Card
All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it… — Wayne Dyer
A tendancy to melancholy...let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault. — Abraham Lincoln
And now I've got to explain the smell that was in there before I went in there. Does that ever happen to you? It's not… — Ellen DeGeneres
Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing… — Bram Stoker
So the little prince tamed the fox. And when the hour of his departure drew near-- Ah," said the fox, "I shall cry." It is… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Since [narcissists] deep down, feel themselves to be faultless, it is inevitable that when they are in conflict with the world they will invariably perceive… — M. Scott Peck
I was most happy when pen and paper were taken from me and I was forbidden from doing anything. I had no anxiety about doing… — Daniil Kharms
Here I should like to remark, for the sake of princes and princesses in general, that it is a low and contemptible thing to refuse… — George MacDonald
But mostly they were lies I told; it wasn't my fault, I couldn't remember, because it was as though I'd been to one of those… — Truman Capote
How quickly was every bad thing discovered to be the fault of the previous administration (an evil set of men who wedded general stupidity to… — Susanna Clarke
I've seen it before. There are women who spread ruin through no fault of theirs, just by being too beautiful, too ful of life and… — Willa Cather

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