Denying a fault doubles it. [ Proverb ]
Teach me to feel another's woe,
To hide the fault I see;
That mercy I to others show,
That mercy show to me. [ Pope ]
He who finds fault means to buy. [ Proverb ]
You find fault with a fat goose. [ Proverb ]
A fault denied is twice committed. [ French Proverb ]
Every one knows how to find fault. [ Proverb ]
He who suspects is seldom at fault. [ Italian Proverb ]
A fault confessed is half redressed. [ Proverb ]
Condemn the fault, but not the actor. [ William Shakespeare ]
Every one puts his fault on the times. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Hunger finds no fault with the cookery. [ Proverb ]
Confession of a fault makes half amends. [ Proverb ]
Not to repent of a fault is to justify it. [ Proverb ]
The fault is as great as he that is faulty.. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
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. [ William Shakespeare ]
Where no fault is there needs no punishment. [ Proverb ]
The fault of the horse is put on the saddle. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Avoid extremes, and shun the fault of such
Who still are pleased too little or too much. [ Pope ]
Your main fault is, you are good for nothing. [ Proverb ]
Let wealth come in by comely thrift,
And not by any sordid shift;
It is haste makes waste;
Extremes have still their fault.
Who gripes too hard the dry and slippery sand,
Holds none at all, or little, in his hand. [ Herrick ]
There are times when patience proves at fault. [ Robert Browning ]
A fault wilfully committed deserves no pardon. [ Proverb ]
Pride, of all others the most dangerous fault,
Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought. [ Roscommon ]
He may find fault, but let him mend it if he can. [ Proverb ]
Avarice is always poor, but poor by ber own fault. [ Johnson ]
A fault is made worse by endeavoring to conceal it. [ Proverb ]
Nobody is willing to acknowledge he is in the fault. [ Proverb ]
The great fault in women is to desire to be like men. [ De Maistre ]
A wilful fault has no excuse, and deserves no pardon. [ Proverb ]
All are presumed good till they are found in a fault. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
He that commits a fault thinks every one speaks of it. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
It is easier to avoid a fault than acquire perfection. [ Proverb ]
If death be terrible, the fault is not in death, but you. [ Proverb ]
A nobody is just the person to find fault with everybody. [ E. P. Day ]
The fault of the ass must not be laid on the pack-saddle. [ Proverb ]
Whatever we cannot help, is our misfortune, not our fault. [ Proverb ]
It is my own fault if I am deceived by the same man twice. [ Proverb ]
The mind alone is in fault which can never fly from itself. [ Horace ]
He who overlooks a fault, invites the commission of another. [ Syrus ]
Every boor can find fault; it would baffle him to do better. [ German Proverb ]
Fools can find fault indeed, but they cannot act more wisely. [ Langbein ]
Suspicion may be no fault, but shewing it may be a great one. [ Proverb ]
One fault begets another; one crime renders another necessary. [ Southey ]
To be angry, is to revenge the fault of others upon ourselves. [ Pope ]
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
He that is foolish in the fault, let him be wise in punishment. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
He that repents of a fault upon right grounds is almost innocent. [ Proverb ]
In love affairs, from innocence to the fault, there is but a kiss. [ A. Second ]
Man's grand fault is, and remains, that he has so many small ones. [ Jean Paul ]
When flattery is unsuccessful, it is but the fault of the flatterer. [ Levis ]
We shall never have friends, if we expect to find them without fault. [ Proverb ]
The disclosure of a secret is always the fault of him who confided it. [ French ]
It is a meaner part of sense to find a fault than taste an excellence. [ Rochester ]
He shall be immortal who liveth till he be stoned by one without fault. [ Fuller ]
Shew me a man without a spot, and I'll shew you a maid without a fault. [ Proverb ]
There is a fault in the house, but would you have it built without any. [ Proverb ]
We are too prone to find fault; let us look for some of the perfections. [ Johann C. F. Von Schiller ]
Every one fault seeming monstrous till his fellow-fault came to match it. [ Shakespeare ]
When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the man who has intrusted it. [ Bruyere ]
The majority of the troubles in this world are the fault of the grammarians. [ Montaigne ]
To forgive a fault in another is more sublime than to be faultless one's self. [ George Sand ]
Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy. [ Herbert ]
To be silent is but a small virtue; but it is a serious fault to reveal secrets. [ Ovid ]
If a man is unhappy, this must be his own fault; for God made all men to be happy. [ Epictetus ]
The first fault is the child of simplicity, but every other the offspring of guilt. [ Goldsmith ]
If extravagance were a fault, it would not have a place in the festivals of the gods. [ Aristippus ]
This is the great fault in wine; it first trips up the feet, it is a cunning wrestler. [ Plautus ]
Show a good man his error, and he turns it to a virtue; but an ill, it doubles his fault. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie; A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby. [ Herbert ]
In love quarrels, the party that loves the most is always most willing to acknowledge the greater fault. [ Sir Walter Scott ]
There is often a complaint of want of parts, when the fault lies in a want of a due improvement of them. [ Locke ]
We can prostrate ourselves in the dust when we have committed a fault, but it is not best to remain there. [ Chateaubriand ]
In ill-matched marriages, the fault is less the woman's than the man's, as the choice depended on her the least. [ Mme. de Rieux ]
It is necessary to repent for years in order to efface a fault in the eyes of men; a single tear suffices with God. [ Chateaubriand ]
To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous: or even if he did, you would find fault with him as a pedant. [ Hazlitt ]
A woman repents sincerely of her fault, only after being weaned from her infatuation for the one who induced her to commit it. [ Latena ]
These men (chronic fault-finders) should consider that it is their envy which deforms everything, and that the ugliness is not in the object, but in the eye. [ Steele ]
We derive from nature no fault that may not become a virtue, no virtue that may not degenerate into a fault. Faults of the latter kind are most difficult to cure. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true. [ John Locke ]
Necessity, that great refuge and excuse for human frailty, breaks through all law; and he is not to be accounted in fault whose crime is not the effect of choice, but force. [ Pascal ]
For the first time, the best may err, art may persuade, and novelty spread out its charms. The first fault is the child of simplicity; but every other the offspring of guilt. [ Goldsmith ]
Woman has a smile for every joy, a tear for every sorrow, a consolation for every grief, an excuse for every fault, a prayer for every misfortune, and encouragement for every hope. [ Sainte-Foix ]
I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself? [ Yogi Berra ]
A woman with a hazel eye never elopes from her husband, never chats scandal, never finds fault, never talks too much nor too little - always is an entertaining, intellectual, agreeable and lovely creature. [ Frederic Saunders ]
The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning; if they attract attention to themselves, it is a fault; in the very best styles, as Southey's, you read page after page without noticing the medium. [ Coleridge ]
The lowest people are generally the first to find fault with show or equipage; especially that of a person lately emerged from his obscurity. They never once consider that he is breaking the ice for themselves. [ Shenstone ]
In my enthusiasm I may have exaggerated the details a little, but you will easily forgive me that fault, since I believe it is the first time I have ever deflected from perpendicular fact on an occasion like this. [ Mark Twain, from The Story Of A Speech ]
Want of perseverance is the great fault of women in everything - morals, attention to health, friendship, and so on. It cannot be too often repeated that women never reach the end of anything through want of perseverance. [ Mme. Necker ]
Some read books only with a view to find fault, while others read only, to be taught; the former are like venomous spiders, extracting a poisonous quality, where the latter, like the bees, sip out a sweet and profitable juice. [ L'Estrange ]
The want of interest renders a person negligent; servants are commonly negligent in what concerns their master's interest. Negligence is therefore the fault of persons of all descriptions, but particularly those in low condition. [ G. Crabb ]
One could not wish any man to fall into a fault; yet it is often precisely after a fault, or a crime even, that the morality which is in a man first unfolds itself, and what of strength he as a man possesses, now when all else is gone from him. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
The morbid states of health, the irritableness of disposition arising from unstrung nerves, the impatience, the crossness, the fault-finding of men, who, full of morbid influences, are unhappy themselves, and throw the cloud of their troubles like a dark shadow upon others, teach us what eminent duty there is in health. [ Beecher ]
Plutarch tells us of an idle and effeminate Etrurian who found fault with the manner in which Themistocles had conducted a recent campaign. What,
said the hero in reply, have you, too, something to say about war, who are like the fish that has a sword, but no heart?
He is always the severest censor on the merits of others who has the least worth of his own. [ E. L. Magoon ]