Fault Quotes

1333 Fault quotes by 961 unique authors

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
How can the mind be so imperfect?" she says with a smile. I look at my hands. Bathed in the moonlight, they seem like statues,… — Haruki Murakami
It wasn't his, it wasn't my fault, we both had nothing except patience, but Death has none. I saw him come (how meanly!) and I… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Watch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fault. — Louisa May Alcott
Here I am alive, and it's not my fault, so I have to try and get by as best I can without hurting anybody until… — Leo Tolstoy
You did what you were told or you didn't get paid, and if things went wrong it wasn't your problem. It was the fault of… — Terry Pratchett
The curse of mortality. You spend the first portion of your life learning, growing stronger, more capable. And then, through no fault of your own,… — Brandon Mull
And for all the richest and most successful merchants life inevitably became rather dull and niggly, and they began to imagine that this was therefore… — Douglas Adams
Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any body. All the world… — Jane Austen
If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault. — Eleanor Roosevelt
The building was on fire, and it wasn’t my fault. — Jim Butcher
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy. — James Thurber
I'm sorry. It's my fault. How do I make it right? — Randy Pausch
My fingers,' said Elizabeth, 'do not move over this instrument in the masterly manner which I see so many woman's do. They have not the… — Jane Austen
This gave me occasion to observe, that when Men are employ'd they are best contented. For on the Days they work'd they were good-natur'd and… — Benjamin Franklin
I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever… — Margaret Atwood

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