Defects Quote by W. Somerset Maugham Download Open image “We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.” — W. Somerset Maugham ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Defects Friends Friendship
Those who search for the defects of others dont know their own defects. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn't matter. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
We must sometimes bear with little defects in others, as we have, against our will, to bear with natural defects in ourselves. If we… — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate. — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
We are fonder of visiting our friends in health than in sickness. We judge less favorably of their characters when any misfortune happens to… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Friends see most of each other’s flaws. Spouses see every awful last bit. — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
If we were faultless, we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate. If we were to… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
“A man thinks it quite natural that he should fall out of love with a woman, but it never strikes him for a moment… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“A man's work reveals him. In social intercourse he gives you the surface that he wishes the world to accept, but in his book… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither. We must be very humble. We… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“There is no more merit in having read a thousand books than in having ploughed a thousand fields.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“I wanted to live again and again. I was willing to accept every sort of life, no matter what its pain and sorrow; I… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“His love became a prison from which he longed to escape, but he had not the strength merely to open the door-that was all… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I did not believe him capable of love. That is an emotion in which tenderness is an essential part, but Strickland had no tenderness… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Jesus never met a disease he could not cure, a birth defect he could not reverse, a demon he could not exorcise. But he… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the USA and China. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good-breeding. — Stanisław I Leszczyński Copy Share Image
I don't want you to praise me...Some praise me because I am a colored girl, and I don't want that kind of praise. I… — Edmonia Lewis Copy Share Image
The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Political correctness is a major defect of the western ethos. Some Western countries have even passed blasphemy laws that would put you in legal… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
Absence of defects does not necessarily build business... Something more is required. — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The essence of man is his freedom. Sin is committed in that freedom. Sin can therefore not be attributed to a defect in his… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
The second commandment that Jesus referred to was not to love others instead of ourselves, but to love them as ourselves. Before we can… — Jim Warner Copy Share Image
