Faults Quotes
1750 quotes by 1143 authors
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Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.
— Gene Tierney
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The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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I'm a sinner just like everybody else and I have my faults and I've been through my dark times in my life to where I…
— Josh Turner
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I love fat people. Every fat person says it's not their fault, that they have gland trouble. You know which gland? The saliva gland.
— Jesse Ventura
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Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and…
— Voltaire
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Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.
— Ethel Waters
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To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
— Simone Weil
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All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.
— Walt Whitman
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I think we have to face right in the center of the hurricane, if you will, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s foibles and faults. I think…
— Michael Eric Dyson
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We live in a world where finding fault in others seems to be the favorite blood sport. It has long been the basis of political…
— Henry B. Eyring
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For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste, or without taking…
— Victor Hugo
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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
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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
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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
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Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
— Mark Twain
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Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings,…
— Anne Frank
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A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults
— Mario Puzo
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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
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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
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When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find…
— Tom Robbins
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