Quotes about faults

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

— Joseph Addison

The greatest of all faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

— Thomas Carlyle

The real fault is to have faults and not amend them.

— Confucius

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

— Confucius

Not to alter one's faults is to be faulty indeed.

— Confucius

When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.

— Confucius

He has not a single redeeming defect.

— Benjamin Disraeli

A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't find fault, find a remedy.

— Henry Ford

A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.

— Benjamin Franklin

A good garden may have some weeds.

— Thomas Fuller

A fault is sooner found than mended.

— Ulpian Fulwell

People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.

— Elizabeth Gaskell

Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Some faults are so closely allied to qualities that it is difficult to weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.

— Margaret Halsey

It is well that there is no one without a fault; for he would not have a friend in the world.

— William Hazlitt

It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.

— Georg Hegel

I may have faults, but being wrong ain't one of them.

— Jimmy Hoffa

While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.

— Horace

Bad people excuse their faults; wise people leave them.

— Ben Johnston

Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.

— Jean De La Fontaine

We forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone.

— Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Only the great can afford to have great defects.

— Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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

— Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Fools can find fault, but they can't act anymore wisely.

— Langbien

Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting his thumb on the scales.

— Byron J. Langenfield

Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.

— Doris Lessing

It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.

— Russell Lynes

Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.

— Marcus Valerius Martial

Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones.

— Jean Paul

The essence of a man is found in his faults.

— Francis Picabia

No one is worse, for knowing the worst of themselves.

— Proverb

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one.

— Chinese Proverb

Our faults irritate us most when we see them in others.

— Pennsylvania Dutch Proverb

Wink at small faults, for you have great ones yourself.

— Scottish Proverb

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

— Helen Rowland

The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.

— Marquis De Sade

Why do we discover faults so much more readily than perfection.

— Marquise De SeVigne

They say men are molded out of faults, and for the most, become much more the better; for being a little bad. [Measure For Measure]

— William Shakespeare

Men's faults to themselves seldom appear.

— William Shakespeare

Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.

— William Shakespeare

Faults are beauties in a lovers eye.

— Theocritus

A spirit to find fault is an enemy to your peace and comfort, and also to the happiness of those around you. It is the key to your destruction.

— Source Unknown

When looking for faults use a mirror, not a telescope

— Source Unknown

A fault that humbles a man is of greater value than a virtue that puffs him up.

— Source Unknown

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies it is the first law of nature.

— Voltaire

None of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

— Oscar Wilde