Quotes with fault

Quotes 61 till 80 of 85.

  • Edward F. Halifax Suspicion is rather a virtue than a fault, as long as it doth like a dog that watcheth, and doth not bite.
    Works (1912)
    Edward F. Halifax
    British Conservative Statesman (1881 - 1959)
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  • Alexander Pope Teach me to feel another's woe. To hide the fault I see: That the mercy I show to others; that mercy also show to me.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Helen Rowland Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Benjamin Franklin The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Seneca The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • G.W.F. Hegel The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.
    G.W.F. Hegel
    German philosopher (1770 - 1831)
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  • Henry Kissinger The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.
    Henry Kissinger
    American politician (1923 - 2023)
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  • John Mortimer The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: ''There is life, but it's not for you.''
    John Mortimer
    English barrister, dramatist, screenwriter, and author (1923 - 2009)
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  • George Eliot There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • James Truslow Adams There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.
    James Truslow Adams
    American writer and historian (1878 - 1949)
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  • Samuel Beckett There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.
    Samuel Beckett
    Irish dramatist and novelist (1906 - 1989)
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  • Horace This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Plautus This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.
    Plautus
    Roman comic poet (250 - 184)
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  • Edward Coke Thought the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.
    Institutes of the Laws of England
    Edward Coke
    English barrister, judge and politician (1552 - 1634)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Plutarch To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Tomorrow every fault is to be amended; but tomorrow never comes.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Blaise Pascal Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.
    Pensees
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Bruce Schneier When my mother gets a prompt 'Do you want to download this?' she's going to say yes. It's disingenuous for Microsoft to give you all of these tools with which to hang yourself, and when you do, then say it's your fault.
    Stross, Randall (2004)
    Bruce Schneier
    American cryptographer, computer security professional and writer (1963 - )
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  • Emily Dickinson Will you tell me my fault, frankly as to yourself, for I had rather wince, than die. Men do not call the surgeon to commend the bone, but to set it, Sir.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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