Double standard Quote by Samuel Johnson

Every fault of the mind becomes more conspicuous and more guilty in proportion to the rank of the offender

— Juvenal

A man has virtues enough if he deserves pardon for his faults on account of them.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.

— Jonathan Swift

It behooves us always to bear in mind, that while actions are always to be judged by the immutable standard of right and wrong,…

— Robert Southey

“ The forbearing use of power does not only form a touchstone, but the manner in which an individual enjoys certain advantages over others…

— Robert E. Lee

Men's minds are as variant as their faces. Where the motives of their actions are pure, the operation of the former is no more…

— George Washington

One's conscience reproaches one much more stingingly for one's follies than one's crimes.

— Geraldine Jewsbury

“Almost all our faults are more pardonable than the methods we resort to to hide them.”

— François de La Rochefoucauld

“A Man who doesn't want to justify himself after being falsely accused, is apparently at Fault — or he has been accused falsely so…

— Sino Melo

No one is more liable to make mistakes than the man who acts only on reflection.

— Luc de Clapiers

“All faults or defects, from the slightest misconduct to the most flagitious crime, Pantocyclus attributed to some deviation from perfect Regularity in the bodily…

— Edwin A. Abbott