Faults Quotes - Page 20

• If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Soon Enough, Youth, Ifs

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Certain faults are necessary for the existence of the individual. We would resent it if old friends were to get rid of certain peculiarities.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Friends, Individual, Certain

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• The demise of our community and culture is the fault of sissified men who have been overly influenced by women.

  Tony Evans

  Men, Community, Scary

  The Progressive, August 1996.

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• In other words, homosexuality was no longer to be considered an illegal form of debauchery or perversion in which one willingly engaged a person of his own sex, but a mental illness which one blamed on his mother. Consequently, a homosexual is not responsible for his behavior - it's his mother's fault!

  Tim LaHaye

  Mother, Sex, Scary

  Tim F. LaHaye (1978). “The unhappy gays: what everyone should know about homosexuality”

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• If [being confident stems from] a self-esteem issue, it's important to embrace the things you might define as so-called imperfections - because something that you might call an imperfection, someone else might find so amazing and so beautiful. It's all in how you embrace yourself, your faults, and your mistakes in life. There's no better way to learn and become a better person than to go through those moments.

  John Slattery

  Beautiful, Mistake, Self Esteem

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Sexually-transmitted diseases is caused by sexual activity and promiscuity it spreads diseases. That's been known, you know, about 400 or 500 years, that somehow these diseases are spread. If fault comes with people because of their personal behavior but it isn't to be placed on a burden on other people, innocent people, why should they have to pay for the consequences?

  Ron Paul

  Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Years, People

  "Reps. Ron Paul, Michele Bachmann and Gov. Rick Perry on Final Push in Iowa". "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. January 1, 2012.

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• There was never a promise that race relations in America would be entirely resolved during my presidency or anybody's presidency. I mean, this has been a running thread - and - and fault line in American life and American politics since its founding.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Mean, Race

  Interview with Jon Sopel on BBC, www.bbc.com. July 24, 2015.

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• Truly it is reasonable to make a great distinction between the faults that come from our weakness and those that come from our wickedness.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Evil, Weakness, Wickedness

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• The lack of closeness among friends is a fault that cannot be reprimanded without becoming incurable.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Friendship, Becoming, Closeness

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• All the satires of the stage should be viewed without discomfort. They are public mirrors, where we are never to admit that we seeourselves; one admits to a fault when one is scandalized by its censure.

  Moliere

  Mirrors, Satire, Should

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• I often accuse my finest acquaintances of an immense frivolity; for, while there are manners and compliments we do not meet, we donot teach one another the lessons of honesty and sincerity that the brutes do, or of steadiness and solidity that the rocks do. The fault is commonly mutual; however, for we do not habitually demand any more of each other.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Honesty, Character

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• This surface good-nature which captivates a new acquaintance and is no bar to treachery, which knows no scruple and is never at fault for an excuse, which makes an outcry at the wound which it condones, is one of the most distinctive features of the journalist. This camaraderie (the word is a stroke of genius) corrodes the noblest minds; it eats into their pride like rust, kills the germ of great deeds, and lends a sanction to moral cowardice.

  Honore de Balzac

  Work, Pride, Mind

  "A Daughter of Eve". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1839.

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• The honor of a country depends much more on removing its faults than on boasting of its qualities.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Country, Honor, Quality

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• Some people as a result of adversity are sadder, wiser, kinder, more human. Most of us are better, though, when things go better. Knowing when to keep your mouth shut is invariably more important than opening it at the right time. Always listen to a man when he describes the faults of others. Often times, most times, he's describing his own, revealing himself.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Adversity, Men, Knowing

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• When it's your own fault, things hurt worse than when someone else is to blame.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Hurt, Blame

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• In a world which furnishes so many employments which are useful, and so many which are amusing, it is our own fault if we ever know what ennui [boredom] is, or if we are ever driven to the miserable resource of gaming, which corrupts our dispositions, and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Gambling, Boredom, Employment

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• I am an exile; but it is the fault that pains;
  The punishment is nought; that it is deserved
  Is all the pain.

  Ovid

  Pain, Punishment, Exile

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• The most striking fault in work by young or beginning novelists, submitted for criticism, is irrelevance--due either to infatuation or indecision. To direct such an author's attention to the imperative of relevance is certainly the most useful--and possibly the only--help that can be given.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Irrelevance, Criticism, Novelists

  Elizabeth Bowen (1975). “Pictures and conversations”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Small faults and virtues are for daily life. The big ones are for emergencies.

  Mason Cooley

  Character, Emergencies, Daily Life

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• The definition of good prose is proper words in their proper places; of good verse, the most proper words in their proper places.The propriety is in either case relative. The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Poetry, Attention, Definitions

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1835). “Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge: In Two Volumes”, p.214

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• More than a decade after our fellow citizens began bedding down on the sidewalks, their problems continue to seem so intractable that we have begun to do psychologically what government has been incapable of doing programmatically. We bring the numbers down--not by solving the problem, but by deciding it's their own damn fault.

  Anna Quindlen

  Numbers, Government, Citizens

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• Shakespeare had no tutors but nature and genius. He caught his faults from the bad taste of his contemporaries. In an age still less civilized Shakespeare might have been wilder, but would not have been vulgar.

  Horace Walpole

  Age, Genius, Might

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• Roosevelt could always keep ahead with his work, but I cannot do it, and I know it is a grievous fault, but it is too late to remedy it. The country must take me as it found me. Wasn't it your mother who had a servant girl who said it was no use for her to try to hurry, that she was a "Sunday chil" and no "Sunday chil" could hurry? I don't think I am a Sunday child, but I ought to have been; then I would have had an excuse for always being late.

  William Howard Taft

  Funny, Girl, Mother

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• Shakespeare's fault is not the greatest into which a poet may fall. It merely indicates a deficiency of taste.

  Denis Diderot

  Fall, May, Taste

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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• Pride is a fault that great men blush not to own: it is the ennobled offspring of self-love; though, it must be confessed, grave and pompous vanity, Iike a fat plebeian in a rove of office, does very often assume its name.

  Joanna Baillie

  Pride, Men, Names

  Joanna Baillie (1851). “The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie ; Complete in One Volume”, p.209

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