Quotes with faults

Quotes 61 till 80 of 100.

  • Samuel Johnson Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • 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
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Bill James The business of popularizing crime is how we expose the faults in our justice system. It's how we expose police misconduct.
    Bill James
    American baseball writer, historian, and statistician (1949 - )
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  • James Fenimore Cooper The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.
    James Fenimore Cooper
    American writer (1789 - 1851)
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  • Francis Picabia The essence of a man is found in his faults.
    Francis Picabia
    French painter and poet (1879 - 1953)
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  • 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
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bee Wilson The great American food writer M. F. K. Fisher once wrote an essay called 'The Anatomy of a Recipe.' To have a good anatomy, in her view, a recipe should have a sense of logical progression. She despaired of recipes with 'anatomical faults,' where the reader is told to make a cake batter and only then to grease the loaf pans.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Barbara Mandrell The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but caring about people is not one of them.
    Barbara Mandrell
    American country music singer, musician, and actress (1948 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle The greatest of all faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Agnes de Mille The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
    Agnes de Mille
    American dancer and choreographer (1905 - 1993)
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  • Samuel Johnson The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us, and others who please us in spite of their faults.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • William Shakespeare They say men are molded out of faults, and for the most, become much more the better; for being a little bad.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Socrates Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Siddha Nagarjuna This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.
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  • Alexander Pope To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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