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All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them. - Oliver Goldsmith The first fault is the child of simplicity, but every other the offspring of guilt. - Oliver Goldsmith Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth; If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt. - Oliver Goldsmith, Retaliation (l. 24) If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes. - Thomas Gray Women will sometimes confess their sins, but I never knew one to confess her faults. - Thomas Chandler Haliburton (used pseudonym Sam Slick) Do you wish to find out a person's weak points? Note the failings he has the quickest eye for in others. They may not be the very failings he is himself conscious of; but they will be their next-door neighbors. No man keeps such a jealous lookout as a rival. - A.W. Hare and J.C. Hare, Guesses at Truth It is well that there is no one without a fault, for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem to belong to a different species. - William Hazlitt (1) While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults; until we at last come to look upon them as virtues. - Heinrich Heine His very faults smack of the raciness of his good qualities. - Washington Irving, The Sketch Book--John Bull Faults and defects every work of man must have. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") Bad men excuse their faults, good men will leave them. - Ben Jonson, Catiline (act III, sc. 2) He who exhibits no faults is a fool or a hypocrite, whom we should mistrust. There are faults so intimately connected with fine qualities that they indicate them, and we do well not to correct them. - Joseph Joubert Who'd bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition? (Listen to those who denounce what they do themselves.) [Lat., Quis tulerit Gracchos de seditone querentes?] - Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal), Satires (II, 24) Had we not faults of our own we should take less pleasure in observing those of others. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld There are some faults which, when well managed, make a greater figure than virtue itself. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld We are often more agreeable through our faults than through our good qualities. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld We easily forget those faults which are known only to ourselves. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld We need not be much concerned about those faults which we have the courage to own. - Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld Just as you are pleased at finding faults, you are displeased at finding perfections. - Johann Kaspar Lavater (John Caspar Lavater) A fault finds its own authors. - Legal Maxim Most of their faults women owe to us, whilst we are indebted to them for the most of our better qualities. - Charles Lemesle Her new bark is worse than ten times her old bite. - James Russell Lowell, A Fable for Critics (l. 28) Relative to getting rid of it, a fault is serious or not in proportion to the depth of its root rather than the amount of its foliage. - George MacDonald You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit. - Martial (Marcus Valerius Martialis), Epigrams (bk. XIV, ep. 111), (translation by Wright) He who excuses himself, accuses himself. [Fr., Qui s'excuse, s'accuse.] - Gabriel Meurier (Meurir or Murier), Tresor des Sentences Displaying page 2 of 4 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 [2] 3 4
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