"And your defect is a propensity to hate……" — Jane Austen

More Defect Quotes

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• Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it… — Teresa of Avila
• It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality. — Max Beerbohm
• There's a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things are… — Chaz Bono
• I'm used to always deciding everything myself. It's a blessing, but also a terrible defect. — Roberto Cavalli
• As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to… — Thomas Aquinas
• The men and woman who make the best boon companions seem to have given up hope of doing something else...some… — John Jay Chapman
• In fact, we will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things. We have to… — John Desmond Bernal
• Indeed envy is a defect; worse than any other. — Rumi
• In England, more than in any other country, science is felt rather than thought. ... A defect of the English… — John Desmond Bernal
• The most heated defenders of a science, who cannot endure the slightest sneer at it, are commonly those who have… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
• By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure;… — Mark Twain

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