Quote by Jane Austen

There is hardly any personal defect... which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.

— Jane Austen

“When you have a defect, some people try not to see it only as a defect, but as your entire identity.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them.”

— Jane Austen

“Anne could not explain. It was always difficult for Anne to explain things even when they were clear to herself, and in this case…

— D.E. Stevenson

“after all, it is easy to cast as a flaw in others a trait you yourself possess.”

— John Ripin Miller

And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is willfully to misunderstand them.

— Jane Austen

“I had rather seem mad and a sluggard, so that my defects are agreeable to myself, or that I am not pinfully conscious of…

— Horace

“Anne did think on the question with perfect decision, and said as much in replay as her own feelings could accomplish, or as his…

— Jane Austen

“they found it easier to reject what they could not have than to admit the lack of it as a deficiency in themselves.”

— Richard Hofstadter

“The inability to admit imperfection is the biggest kind of weakness.”

— T. Anderson

“All day long, no one is at fault for anything. Whatever faults we see; we see them because of our own defects.”

— Dada Bhagwan

“The subjects of her talk didn't matter; he knew what she was really saying. Helpless and gentle, small and tired and anxious to please,…

— Richard Yates