#fault

No weakness of the human mind has more frequently incurred animadversion, than the negligence with which men overlook their own faults, however flagrant, and the easiness with which they pardon them, however frequently repeated. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#character-flaws #criticism #double-standards #faults #men

Our natures own predilections and antipathies alike strange. There are people from whom we secretly shrink, whom we would personally avoid, though reason confesses that they are good people: there are others with faults of temper, &c., evident enough, beside whom we live content, as if the air about them did us good. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#faults #nature #people #personality #predilection

But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes failing and falling back? ↗

— Wilkie Collins

#failure #faultlessness #faults #human-nature #steadfastness

Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults. ↗

— Antisthenes

#find #first #observe #out #your

I went out with Robbie Williams and Liam Gallagher. I was accused of going out with many different people but that wasn't my fault. ↗

— Nicole Appleton

#different #different people #fault #going #i

A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#his #man #misfortune #mother #wife

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us. ↗

— James Truslow Adams

#bad #behaves #best #fault #find

If I'm in danger then it's usually my fault and it's up to me to get myself out of it. I am not in it just to get an adrenalin rush. No way! ↗

— Kate Adie

#am #danger #fault #get #i

There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#boots #fault #feet #his #man

I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#faults #i #them #tune