Character Quote by Jack McDevitt

I've always been interested in our flaws as human beings, just as much as the virtues.

— Nicole Kidman

When virtues are pointed out first, flaws seem less insurmountable.

— Judith Martin

While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on…

— Heinrich Heine

There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.

— Tacitus

It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Though ambition may be a fault in itself, it is often the mother of virtues.

— Quintilian

Some people are so extremely whiffling and inconsiderable that they are as far from any real faults as from substantial virtues.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues.

— Mason Cooley

Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.

— Hugh Prather

No one should be judged by their defects. The great virtues a person has are his or her especially. But their errors are the…

— Swami Vivekananda

“It is undoubtedly the case that the practice of the virtues makes one happier. We’ve somewhat lost sight of that essential truth, now that…

— Alexander McCall Smith

When we associate with the virtuous we form ourselves in imitation of their virtues, or at least lose, every day, something of our faults.

— Pope Agapetus I