best quotations about
Faults |
and Flaws, Defects
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Quotations
 | No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose. — Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher 8 likes |
 | Our virtues are most frequently but vices in disguise. — La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680, French writer 7 likes |
 | I swear to you gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1821-1881, Russian writer 7 likes |
 | We are more our flaws than our qualifications. — José Saramago, 1922-2010, Portuguese writer [Nobel 1998] 7 likes |
| The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity. — Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher 6 likes |
| We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves we have no great ones. — La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680, French writer 6 likes |
 | Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. — Kurt Vonnegut, 1922-2007, American writer 5 likes |
 | The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings. — William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, English poet & playwright ‐ Julius Caesar 5 likes |
 | I have all the defects of other people yet everything they do seems to me inconceivable. — Emile M. Cioran, 1911-1995, French-Romanian philosopher 4 likes |
 | All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes but without three of them, Pride, Lust, and Sloth, poetry might never have been born. — Vladimir Nabokov, 1899-1977, Russian-American writer 4 likes |
 | The fault no child ever loses is the one he was most punished for. — Mignon McLaughlin, 1913-1983, American magazine editor 4 likes |
 | It's my experience that folks who have no vices have generally very few virtues. — Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865, American President 4 likes |
 | We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits. — Somerset Maugham, 1874-1965, British writer 3 likes |
 | Every excess causes a defect; every defect an excess. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher 3 likes |
| We try to make virtues out of the faults we have no wish to correct. — La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680, French writer 3 likes |
 | Some people find fault like there is a reward for it. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 3 likes |
 | She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces... But I loved her. — Jean Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1778, Swiss-French philosopher 3 likes |
 | Let thy Vices die before thee. — Dr. Thomas Fuller, 1654-1734, English physician and adage collector 3 likes |
| We are irritated by rascals, intolerant of fools, and prepared to love the rest. But where are they? — Mignon McLaughlin, 1913-1983, American magazine editor 2 likes |
 | Good and great are seldom in the same man. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 2 likes |
 | Faults are beauties in a lover's eye. — Theocritus, 3rd cent. BC, Ancient Greek poet 2 likes |
| If we had no faults, we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others. — La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680, French writer 2 likes |
| There are some persons who only disgust with their abilities, there are persons who please even with their faults. — La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680, French writer 2 likes |
 | Don’t find fault, find a remedy. — Henry Ford, 1863-1947, American industrialist, founder of FORD 2 likes |
 | Where men build on false grounds, the more they build, the greater is the ruin. |
 | Nowadays people are born to find fault. When they look at Achilles, they see only his heel. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1830-1916, German author of maxims |
 | In our ideals we unwittingly reveal our vice. |
 | Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings. |
| No vice exists which does not pretend to be more or less like some virtue, and which does not take advantage of this assumed resemblance. |
 | If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon. |
 | Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses. |
| It is well that there is no one without a fault; for he would not have a friend in the world. |
 | You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults. |
 | Respect your curses, for they are the instruments of your destiny. |
 | And, in order to possess the Truth, the plays of the lower nature must be stopped. — Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher |
| Man’s freedom is relative and it cannot be held solely responsible for the imperfection of his nature. — Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher |
| Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism. — Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher |
 | When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults. |
 | I had a microscopic eye for the blemish, for the grain of ugliness which to me constituted the sole beauty of the object. |
| The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues.You can't separate them. They're wedded. |
 | Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time. |
 | I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times, hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best. |
 | If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears. |
Latin Quotes
 | No one is without fault. Nemo sine vitio est. — Seneca, 5 AD-65 AD, Roman philosopher 52 likes |
 | Nothing is blessed in every part. Nihil est ab omni parte beatum. 15 likes |
Quotes in Verse
 | Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt. — Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, American writer, poet, satirist, critic 2 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | Rather examine your own faults than those of the others. Κρέσσον τα οικήια ελέγχειν αμαρτήματα ή τα οθνεία. — Democritus, 470-370 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 7 likes |
 | Success is apt to cover a multitude of faults. Αι γαρ ευπραξίαι δειναί συγκρύψαι τα ονείδη. — Demosthenes, 384-322 BC, Ancient Athenian & statesman orator 6 likes |
 | Nothing is blameless, but all things have faults and imperfections. Ουδέν ανεπίληπτον, αλλ’ έχει πάντα διαμαρτίας και αγνοίας. — Thales of Miletus, 643-548 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 3 likes |
Proverbs
 | A diamond with a flaw is worth more than a pebble without imperfections. 2 likes |
Movie Quotes
 | Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son. — from the film Animal House (1978) 4 likes |
