Fault Quotes - page 2

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger. (Epictetus)
I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say - it leaves me something to do. View quote
Edward Albee
The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung To their first fault, and withered in their pride. View quote
Robert Browning
Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had he Full well the busy whisper circling round Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd. Yet was he kind, or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault The village all declar'd how much he knew, 'Twas certain he could write and cipher too. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything. View quote
Anita Brookner
If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim. View quote
Richard Bach
When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there. View quote
Joe Strummer
Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others. View quote
Davy Crockett
Every fat person says it's not their fault, that they have gland trouble. You know which gland? The saliva gland. They can't push away from the table. View quote
Jesse Ventura
I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault, and I have no faults. View quote
David Lee Roth
To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is a profound moral fault. (Robert Conquest)
Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man. View quote
Helen Rowland
Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it. View quote
John Henry Newman
Sexism is not the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothers. View quote
Robin Morgan
And he that does one fault at first And lies to hide it, makes it two. View quote
Isaac Watts
We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change. View quote
Katharine Hepburn
Find fault, when you must find fault, in private, if possible; and some time after the offense, rather than at the time. View quote
Sydney Smith
If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed - if we are not willing - we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect. View quote
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Many people are more like the earth than we know. Maybe they have fault lines that sooner or later are going to split open under pressure. View quote
Rebecca Wells
When someone stabs you it's not your fault that you feel pain. View quote
Louise Penny
My fault now is making my plays too short. (Beth Henley)
Obviously the government of [Mussolini's] time, out of fear that German power might lead to complete victory, preferred to ally itself with Hitler's Germany rather than opposing it ... The racial laws were the worst fault of Mussolini as a leader, who in so many other ways did well. View quote
Silvio Berlusconi
Apparently it's my fault that the Titanic sank. View quote
Ian Holloway
I turn and I slowly walk away and I don't look back. It has always been a fault of mine, but it is the way I am. I never look back. Never. View quote
James Frey
The building was on fire, and it wasn't my fault. View quote
Jim Butcher