Quotes of Fault - somelinesforyou

“ Success is the one unpardonable sin against one's fellows. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence? ”

- Alexander Pope

“ Without the spice of guilt, sin cannot be fully savored. ”

- Alexander Chase

“ 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

“ Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes. ”

- George Soros

“ It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own. ”

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ Instruction does not prevent waste of time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all. ”

- James A. Froude

“ They say men are molded out of faults, and for the most, become much more the better; for being a little bad. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ These false pretexts and varnished colours failing, Rare in thy guilt how foul must thou appear. ”

- John Milton

“ Do not think of your faults, still less of others' faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes. ”

- John Ruskin

“ The gods Grow angry with your patience. 'Tis their care, And must be yours, that guilty men escape not: As crimes do grow, justice should rouse itself. ”

- Ben Jonson

“ A wife is to thank God her husband hath faults. A husband without faults is a dangerous observer. ”

- George Savile

“ 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

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

- Confucius

“ Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings. ”

- Laurence J. Peter

“ Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams. ”

- Seneca

“ Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. ”

- Robert Anson Heinlein

“ Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults. ”

- Antisthenes

“ The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault. ”

- Dr. David M. Burns

“ She feared no danger, for she knew no sin. ”

- John Dryden

“ One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be a wonderful thing..I mean, I carry my sins around with me, there's nobody there to forgive them. ”

- Kingsley Amis

“ Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at. ”

- Josh Billings

“ I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming vices. ”

- Mark Twain

“ The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot. ”

- Vittorio Alfieri

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

- Confucius

“ They say, best men are moulded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ We make a ladder of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot. ”

- St. Augustine

“ Focus on remedies, not faults. ”

- Jack Nicklaus

“ It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us. ”

- Adam Clarke
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