Fault Quotes

Archery teaches us how to seek the truth. When the shooter misses, he does not blame others, but looks for the fault in himself. (Confucius)
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that's laughable is vanity. View quote
Henri Bergson
Nowadays people are born to find fault. When they look at Achilles, they see only his heel. View quote
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me. View quote
Alexander Pope
Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy. View quote
George Herbert
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them. View quote
Jack Kerouac
Isn't it true that the fault of birth rests somewhat on the child? I believe it's we who led our parents on to bear us, and it's our unborn children who make our flesh itch. View quote
T. E. Lawrence
Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby. View quote
George Herbert
It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something. View quote
Anthony Trollope
Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great. (Edward Coke)
For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult. View quote
Plutarch
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault. View quote
Henry Kissinger
It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation. View quote
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more. View quote
Mark Twain
People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault. View quote
Sydney J. Harris
O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault! View quote
Dante Alighieri
I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault. View quote
Branch Rickey
I criticize by creation - not by finding fault. View quote
Cicero
If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime. (Jack Kerouac)
It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on. View quote
Jack Kerouac
Never find fault with the absent. View quote
Alexander Pope
Ambition first sprung from your bless'd abodes; The glorious fault of angels and of gods. View quote
Alexander Pope
The fault of the utilitarian doctrine is that it mistakes impersonality for impartiality. View quote
John Rawls