Fault Quotes

If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noticing them in others.

To find out a girls’ faults, praise her to her girl friends.

Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.

Clean your finger before you point at my spots.

He will be immoral who liveth till he be stoned by one without fault.

Fuller.

If the best man’s faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.

Gray.

We should correct our own faults by seeing how uncomely they appear in others.

Beaumont.

This I always religiously observed, as a rule, never to chide my husband before company nor to prattle abroad of miscarriages at home. What passes between two people is much easier made up than when once it has taken air.

We confess small faults, in order to insinuate that we have no great ones.

Rochefoucauld.

You will find it less easy to uproot faults, than to choke them by gaining virtues.

Ruskin.

No one sees the wallet on his own back, though every one carries two packs, one before, stuffed with the fault of his neighbors; the other behind, filled with his own.

Old Proverb.

To reprove small faults with undue vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to kill a fly on his friend’s forehead.

Anon.

People are commonly so employed in pointing out faults in those before them, as to forget that some behind may at the same time be descanting on their own.

Dilwyn.

It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as having overcome them, that is an advantage to us; it being with the follies of the mind as with the weeds of a field, which if destroyed and consumed upon the place of their birth, enrich and improve it more than if non had ever sprung there.

Pope.

If thou wouldst bear thy neighbor’s faults, cast thine eyes upon thine own.

Molinos.

He who exhibits no faults is a fool or a hypocrite whom we should distrust.

Joubert.

We easily forget our faults when they are known only to ourselves.

Rochefoucauld.

Observe your enemies for they first find out your faults.

Antisthenes.

If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.

Fenelon.

Every one is eagle eyed to see another’s faults and deformity.

Dryden.

To acknowledge our faults when we are blamed, is modesty; to discover them to one;s friends, in ingenuousness, is confidence; but to proclaim them to the world, if one does not take care, is pride.

Confucius.

Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others; for thou hast many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou are not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will?

Thomas a Kempis.

The wise man has his foibles as well as the fool. Those of the one are known to himself, and concealed from the world; while those of the other are known to the world, and concealed from himself.

J. Mason.

Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and of the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.

Chinese Proverb.

Men are almost always cruel on their neighbors faults, and make the overthrow of others the badge of their own ill masked virtue.

Sir P.Sidney.

Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are compound, so also is their punishment.

Colton.