Adopted Quote by Samuel Johnson

The essence of a man is found in his faults.

— Francis Picabia

“When man finds in himself a certain defect, of which he can by no means rid himself, there remains but to accept the so-called…

— Lev Shestov

A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little 'personal…

— Helen Rowland

In writing, as in life, faults are endured without disgust when they are associated with transcendent merit, and may be sometimes recommended to weak…

— Samuel Johnson

Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses with, and…

— Joseph Addison

There is an unfortunate disposition in a man to attend much more to the faults of his companions which offend him, than to their…

— Sir Fulke Greville

The question is not what man can scorn, or disparage, or find fault with, but what he can love, and value, and appreciate.

— John Ruskin

The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues.You can't separate them. They're wedded.

— Henry Miller

Vanity is apt to inspire contempt, but that becomes immediately tempered by a gentler and more gracious feeling; for the vain man desires to…

— Arthur Alfred Lynch

“No man engaged in a work he does not like can preserve many saving illusions about himself. The distaste, the absence of glamour, extend…

— Joseph Conrad

A man who love only himself and his pleasures is vain, presumptuous, and wicked even from principle.

— Luc de Clapiers

Faults are beauties in a lover's eye.

— Theocritus