Their Defects Quotes

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Try to acquire the virtues you believe lacking in your brothers. Then you will no longer see their defects, for you will no longer have… — Saint Augustine
Like pictures, men should be judged by their merits and not by their defects. — Bainbridge Colby
No one should be judged by their defects. The great virtues a person has are his or her especially. But their errors are the common… — Swami Vivekananda
The gentleman calls attention to the good points in others; he does not call attention to their defects. The small man does just the reverse… — Confucius
Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years. — Maggie Gallagher
We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects. — William Hazlitt
We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities. — Thomas Mann
We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits. — W. Somerset Maugham
Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable. — Voltaire
We rightly scorn those who have no made use of their defects, who have not exploited their deficiencies, and have not been enriched by their… — Emile M. Cioran
The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you… — Haruki Murakami
...his face bore an expression that mingled haughty disdain with a tender, ardent sympathy, as if he would love all things if only his nature… — Philip Pullman
All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects. — Aldous Huxley
People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues. — Haruki Murakami
Women are all the same; we want to be smaller in the waist, longer legs, slimmer. I design for women and their defects, to make… — Donatella Versace
We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits. — W. Somerset Maugham
We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities. — Jacques Maritain
The fact alone that both, like Chatham before them, were great war ministers, links their names inseparably. Beyond that, they shared many qualities in common:… — Giovanni Costigan

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