Their Defects Quotes
18 quotes by 16 authors
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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
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Like pictures, men should be judged by their merits and not by their defects.
— Bainbridge Colby
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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
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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
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Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years.
— Maggie Gallagher
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We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.
— William Hazlitt
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We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
— Thomas Mann
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.
— Voltaire
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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
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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
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...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
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All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.
— Aldous Huxley
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People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues.
— Haruki Murakami
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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
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We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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We don't love qualities; we love a person; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as their qualities.
— Jacques Maritain
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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
Who Wrote These Their Defects Quotes
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