Faults

"Then farewell, Horace; whom I hated so, Not for thy faults, but mine."

"The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none."

"It as useless as it is impolitic to complain of the world; for the world will be sure to be an overmatch for those who find fault with it."

"Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth; If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt."

"Our own faults are those we are the first to detect, and the last to forgive, in others."

"Her new bark is worse than ten times her old bite."

"You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit."

"The glorious fault of angels and of gods."

"I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults."

"Every one fault seeming monstrous till his fellow-fault came to match it."

"Chide him for faults, and do it reverently, When you perceive his blood inclined to mirth."

"So may he rest; his faults lie gently on him!"

"And oftentimes, excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse, As patches set upon a little breach, Discredit more in hiding of the fault, Than did the fault before it was so patched."

"All's not offence that indiscretion finds."

"Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it? Why, every fault's condemn'd ere it be done; Mine were the very cipher of a function, To fine the faults whose fine stands in record, And let go by the actor."

"Go to your bosom; Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know That's like my brother's fault."

"Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud; Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun, And loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud. All men make faults."

"Her only fault, and that is faults enough, Is that she is intolerable curst And shrewd and froward, so beyond all measure That, were my state far worser than it is, I would not wed her for a mine of gold."

"Faults that are rich are fair."

"Suus quoque attributus est error: Sed non videmus, manticæ quid in tergo est."

"Ea molestissime ferre homines debent quæ ipsorum culpa ferenda sunt."

"Est proprium stultitiæ aliorum vitia cernere, oblivisci suorum."

"Thou hast no faults, or I no faults can spy; Thou art all beauty, or all blindness I."

"Men still had faults, and men will have them still; He that hath none, and lives as angels do, Must be an angel."

"The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces."

"Heureux l'homme quand il n'a pas les défauts de ses qualités."

"Do you wish to find out a person's weak points? Note the failings he has the quickest eye for in others. They may not be the very failings he is himself conscious of; but they will be their next-door neighbors. No man keeps such a jealous lookout as a rival."

"His very faults smack of the raciness of his good qualities."

"Bad men excuse their faults, good men will leave them."

"Quis tulerit Gracchos de seditione querentes?"

"Qui s'excuse, s'accuse."

"Ut nemo in sese tentat descendere, nemo! Sed præcedenti spectatur mantica tergo."

"Peras imposuit Jupiter nobis duas. Propriis repletam vitiis post tergum dedit; Alienis ante pectus suspendit gravem."

"Quia, qui alterum incusat probi, eum ipsum se intueri oportet."

"Nihil peccat, nisi quod nihil peccat."

"Amici vitium ni feras, prodis tuum."

"Invitat culpam qui delictum præterit."

"For tho' the faults were thick as dust In vacant chambers, I could trust Your kindness."