Faults Quote by Luc de Clapiers

We do not like our friends the worse because they sometimes give us an opportunity to rail at them heartily. Their faults reconcile us…

— William Hazlitt

Our friends don't see our faults, or conceal them, or soften them.

— Joseph Addison

We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can't tolerate.

— William James

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

“we do our friends no favors by pretending not to notice flaws in their work, especially when those who are not their friends are…

— Sam Harris

Regard as your most faithful friends, not those who praise everything you say or do, but those who criticize your mistakes.

— Isocrates

We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn't matter.

— Mignon McLaughlin

A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults

— Mario Puzo

Compliment others on the virtues they have; and they're not half as pleased as being complimented for the ones they don't have.

— Malcolm Forbes

If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Our judgments when we are pleased and friendly are not the same as when we are pained and hostile.

— Aristotle

We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.

— W. Somerset Maugham