Faults Quotes - Page 16

• There is scarcely any fault in another which offends us more than vanity, though perhaps there is none that really injures us so little.

  Hannah More

  Vanity, Littles

  Hannah More (1835). “The Works of Hannah More”, p.132

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• Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault?

  Lillian Hellman

  Long, Enough, Havens

  Lillian Hellman (1952). “The Autumn Garden: Play in Three Acts”, p.18, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• The great fault of mankind is that it will not think.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Thinking, Mankind

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriot (Stanton). Blatch (Mrs) (1922). “Elizabeth Cady Stanton as revealed in her letters, diary and reminiscences”

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• It is easier for the reader to judge, by a thousand times, than for the writer to invent. The writer must summon his Idea out of nowhere, and his characters out of nothing, and catch words as they fly, and nail them to the page. The reader has something to go by and somewhere to start from, given to him freely and with great generosity by the writer. And still the reader feels free to find fault.

  Fay Weldon

  Book, Reading, Character

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• This body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it. It is extraordinary how it likes being indulged.

  Teresa of Avila

  Essentials, Body, Likes

  St. Teresa of Avila (2002). “Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila”, p.47, A&C Black

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• Tis mighty easy o'er a glass of wine
  On vain refinements vainly to refine,
  To laugh at poverty in plenty's reign,
  To boast of apathy when out of pain,
  And in each sentence, worthy of the schools,
  Varnish'd with sophistry, to deal out rules
  Most fit for practice, but for one poor fault
  That into practice they can ne'er be brought.

  Charles Churchill

  Pain, Wine, School

  Charles Churchill (1855). “The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill: With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes”, p.377

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• This is my fault. Give me the ball.

  Bronko Nagurski

  Nfl, Giving, Balls

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• Hunger finds no fault with the cookery.

  Henry George Bohn

  Food, Cooking, Hunger

  Henry George Bohn, John Ray (1893). “A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages”

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• Do you feel that you have lost your way in life? Then God Himself will show you your way. Are you utterly helpless, worn out, body and soul? Then God's eternal love is ready and willing to help you up, and revive you. Are you wearied with doubts and terrors? Then God's eternal light is ready to show you your way; God's eternal peace ready to give you peace. Do you feel yourself full of sins and faults? Then take heart; for God's unchangeable will is, to take away those sins, and purge you from those faults.

  Charles Kingsley

  God, Heart, Love Is

  Charles Kingsley (1859). “The Good News of God: Sermons”, p.369

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• Black detraction will find faults where they are not.

  Philip Massinger

  Black

  Philip Massinger, Philip Edwards, Colin Gibson (1976). “The Plays and Poems of Philip Massinger:”, p.128, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Mother, when your children are irritable, do not make them more so by scolding and fault-finding, but correct their irritability by good nature and mirthfulness. Irritability comes from errors in food, bad air, too little sleep, a necessity for change of scene and surroundings; from confinement in close rooms, and lack of sunshine.

  Herbert Spencer

  Mother, Children, Sleep

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• The world is always a new plaything to children, while to the old it seems falling to pieces from sheer dryness. Everything loses its value with time, but it is not the fault of the fruit, but of the mouth and the tongue.

  Kate Douglas Wiggin

  Appreciation, Children, Fall

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• By some mysterious method, Susan Carr's gossip gave the listener a gentler feeling towards his kind. When she spoke of her neighbors' faults, one knew that somehow they were simply virtues gone to seed.

  Margaret Deland

  Gossip, Feelings, Gone

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• Heavens! whatever possesses us, here below, that we mutually torment ourselves, sourly reproach our mutual faults, and mercilessly condemn all that is not cut according to our pattern?

  George Sand

  Cutting, Heaven, Patterns

  George Sand (2009). “Letters of George Sand”, p.123, Cosimo, Inc.

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• ... when we are misunderstood it is always our own fault. What the reader wants most of all is to be able to grasp what we think; but you loftily refuse to comply.

  George Sand

  Thinking, Misunderstood, Able

  Gustave Flaubert, George Sand (1999). “Flaubert-Sand: The Correspondence of Gustave Flaubert & George Sand”, Harvill Press

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• Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Envy, Perfection, Findings

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• Those who, from the desire of our perfection, have the keenest eye far our faults generally compensate for it by taking a higher view of our merits than we deserve.

  John Frederick Boyes

  Appreciation, Eye, Views

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• There are some books and characters so pleasant, or rather which contain so much that is pleasant, that criticism is perplexed or silent. The hounds are perpetually at fault among the sweet-scented herbs and flowers that grow at the base of Etna.

  John Frederick Boyes

  Sweet, Flower, Book

  John Frederick Boyes (1859). “Life and Books: Or, Records of Thought and Reading”, p.154

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• I do not think it is "selling America short" when we ask a great deal of her; on the contrary, it is those who ask nothing, those who see no fault, who are really selling America short!

  J. William Fulbright

  Thinking, America, Selling

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• Our age is so gregarious that there is at present a marked prejudice against anyone being alone. It is looked down on, and a need to be alone is almost considered a fault, a weakness, as though if one cannot endure - more - enjoy being with other people every minute one is aloof, unreal, and somehow to be pitied.

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

  People, Solitude, Age

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• Americans were people who wanted to leave every place better than they found it, to leave every man more of a man than they found him. ... Americans could open doors to almost all that was admirable - it was their misfortune, not their fault, that movies and victrolas and advertisements squeezed in when they opened the door.

  Stella Benson

  Men, Doors, People

  Stella Benson (1924). “Pipers and a Dancer”

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• I have an idea that conscience impedes quite as many merits as faults, is a sort of alloy, a nickel which may prevent silver from bending but also prevents it from shining.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Ideas, Shining, Bending

  Sylvia Townsend Warner, Valentine Ackland, Susanna Pinney (1998). “I'll stand by you: selected letters of Sylvia Townsend Warner and Valentine Ackland : with narrative by Sylvia Townsend Warner”, Random House (UK)

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• I am more afraid of making a fault in my Latin than of the Kings of Spain, France, Scotland, the whole House of Guise, and all of their confederates.

  Elizabeth I

  Kings, Latin, Scotland

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• If extravagance were a fault, it would not have a place in the festivals of the gods.

  Aristippus

  Extravagance, Festivals, Ifs

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• This is an amazing country, for all of its faults. My feeling is, dig in and let's try to change the world. Dissent is not only your right, it's your duty.

  Susan Sarandon

  Country, Feelings, Patriotism

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