Love sees no faults. [ Proverb ]
Rich men have no faults. [ Proverb ]
Love overlooks many faults. [ Proverb ]
Be to her virtues very kind;
Be to her faults a little blind. [ Prior ]
In beauty, faults conspicuous grow;
The smallest speck is seen on snow. [ Gay ]
Faults are thick when love is thin. [ Proverb ]
Echo waits with art and care
And will the faults of song repair. [ Emerson ]
Faults are beauties in lover's eyes. [ Theocritus ]
Faults are beauties in a lover's eye. [ Theocritus ]
Condemn the fault, but not the actor. [ William Shakespeare ]
Where there is no love all are faults. [ Proverb ]
He abounds in charming faults of style. [ Quint ]
Great men should not have great faults. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
Best men oft are moulded out of faults. [ William Shakespeare ]
An honest good look covers many faults. [ Proverb ]
Prosperous men seldom mend their faults. [ Proverb ]
Few are the faults we flatter when alone. [ Young ]
Every one lays his faults upon the times. [ Proverb ]
For faults are beauties in a lover's eyes. [ Theocritus ]
A subject's faults a subject may proclaim,
A monarch's errors are forbidden game. [ William Cowper ]
Oft my jealousy shapes faults that are not. [ William Shakespeare ]
Dogs that hunt foulest hit off most faults. [ Proverb ]
Be England what she will,
With all her faults she is my country still. [ Churchill ]
What is it to be wise?
It is but to know how little can be known,
To see all others' faults, and feel our own. [ Pope ]
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 ]
Press not a falling man too far; 'tis virtue:
His faults lie open to the laws; let them.
Not you, correct him. [ William Shakespeare ]
Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides;
Who covers faults, at last shame them derides. [ William Shakespeare ]
Is she not a wilderness of faults and follies? [ Sheridan ]
Forget other's faults by remembering your own. [ Proverb ]
They say, best men are moulded out of faults;
And, for the most, become much more the better
For being a little bad. [ William Shakespeare ]
O what a world of vile ill-favour'd faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year! [ William Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor ]
It is common to man to pardon all his own faults.
Happy is the man who sees his faults in his youth. [ Proverb ]
The faults of our neighbours with freedom we blame,
But tax not ourselves, though we practise the same. [ Cunningham ]
If satire charms, strike faults, but spare the man. [ Young ]
God send me a friend that will tell me of my faults. [ Proverb ]
Wilful faults have no excuse, and deserve no pardon. [ Proverb ]
The way to avoid great faults, is to beware of less. [ Proverb ]
Infidelities rupture love; little faults wear it out. [ Bussy-Rabutin ]
To love is the least of the faults of a loving woman. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
The great fault in women is to desire to be like men. [ De Maistre ]
We easily forget our faults, when no body knows them. [ Proverb ]
Every one's faults are not written in their foreheads. [ Proverb ]
Bad men excuse their faults; good men will leave them. [ Ben Jonson ]
A woman will confess her faults sooner than her follies. [ Alfred Bougeart ]
He has but bad food that feeds upon the faults of others. [ Proverb ]
Those see nothing but faults, that seek for nothing else. [ Proverb ]
A blockhead can find more faults than a wise man can mend. [ Gaelic Proverb ]
He hath more faults than hairs, and more wealth than faults. [ Proverb ]
He who overlooks a fault, invites the commission of another. [ Syrus ]
No man is born without faults, he is best who has the fewest. [ Horace ]
Small faults indulged are little thieves, that let in greater. [ Proverb ]
We easily forget those faults which are known only to ourselves. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
Why do we discover faults so much more readily than perfections? [ Mme. de Sévigné ]
Trust no friend without faults, and love a maiden, but no angel. [ Lessing ]
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. [ Carlyle ]
Unless you bear with the faults of a friend, you betray your own. [ Syrus ]
Silence is a good receipt against such faults as may cause offense. [ Proverb ]
In friendship, we see only the faults which may injure our friends. [ Du Coeur ]
All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them. [ Goldsmith ]
Every fool can find faults, that a great many wise men cannot remedy. [ Proverb ]
If nobody take notice of our faults, we easily forget them ourselves. [ Proverb ]
We finish by excusing our faults, but we always blush at our blunders.
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 ]
We confess small faults in order to insinuate that we have no great ones. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
Every one fault seeming monstrous till his fellow-fault came to match it. [ Shakespeare ]
Faults of ignorance are excuseable only, where the ignorance itself is so. [ Proverb ]
Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for. [ Landor ]
Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct. [ La Roche ]
As nice as we are in love, we forgive more faults in that than in friendship. [ Henry Home ]
We are often more agreeable through our faults than through our good qualities. [ Rochefoucauld ]
Loss of strength is more frequently due to the faults of youth than of old age. [ Cicero ]
The first faults are theirs that commit them; the second theirs that permit them. [ Proverb ]
It requires less character to discover the faults of others than to tolerate them. [ J. Petit-Senn ]
We need not be much concerned about those faults which we have the courage to own. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
It is not by his faults, but by his excellences, that we must measure a great man. [ George Henry Lewes ]
The first fault is the child of simplicity, but every other the offspring of guilt. [ Goldsmith ]
A friend is a being that is willing to bear with us in all our faults and failings. [ G. Forster ]
Only those faults which we encounter in ourselves are insufferable to us in others. [ Madame Swetchine ]
Women will sometimes confess their sins, but I never knew one to confess her faults. [ Haliburton ]
Women see faults much more readily in each other than they can discover perfections. [ Chamfort ]
Women, like men, may be persuaded to confess their faults; but their follies, never. [ Alfred de Musset ]
Thou hast no faults, or I no faults can spy; Thou art all beauty, or all blindness I. [ Christopher Codrington ]
Just as you are pleased at finding faults, you are displeased at finding perfections. [ Lavater ]
Had we not faults of our own we should take less pleasure in observing those of others. [ Rochefoucauld ]
Let us not write at a loose rambling rate, in hope the world will wink at all our faults. [ Roscommon ]
There are some faults which, when well managed, make a greater figure than virtue itself. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
Whosoever entertains you with the faults of others, deserves to serve you in the same kind. [ Proverb ]
If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes. [ Gray ]
It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others, and to forget his own. [ Cicero ]
Friendship cannot go far if we are not disposed mutually to forgive each other's venial faults. [ La Bruyère ]
Women should be careful of their conduct, for appearances sometimes injure them as much as faults. [ Abbi Girard ]
Though men can cover crimes with bold, stern looks, poor women's faces are their own faults' books. [ William Shakespeare ]
To correct the faults of man, we address the head; to correct those of woman, we address the heart. [ Beauchene ]
Dishonest men conceal their faults from themselves as well as others; honest men know and confess them. [ Rochefoucauld ]
It is not so much the being exempt from faults, as the having overcome them, that is an advantage to us. [ Alexander Pope ]
A just person knows how to secure his own reputation without blemishing another's by exposing his faults. [ Quesnel ]
Every man has something to do which he neglects; every man has faults to conquer which he delays to combat. [ Dr. Johnson ]
Women should be doubly careful of their conduct, since appearances often injure them as much as real faults. [ Abbe Girard ]
Of all acts is not, for a man, repentance the most divine? The greatest of faults is to be conscious of none. [ Carlyle ]
We must not take the faults of our youth with us into our old age, for old age brings with it its own defects. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye? [ Bible ]
Women call repentance the sweet remembrance of their faults, and the bitter regret of their inability to recommence them. [ Beaumanoir ]
Irresolution and mutability are often the faults of men whose views are wide, and whose imagination is vigorous and excursive. [ Dr. Johnson ]
It is dangerous to discover the faults or weaknesses of certain persons: they never forgive us the knowledge of these secret ulcers. [ De Finod ]
Propriety of thought and propriety of diction are commonly found together. Obscurity and affectation are the two greatest faults of style. [ Macaulay ]
I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that we can't stand other people having the same faults as ourselves. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
Misfortunes one can endure - they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults - Ah ! there is the sting of life. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]
Talents angel-bright, if wanting worth, are shining instruments in false ambition's hand, to finish faults illustrious, and give infamy renown. [ Young ]
We never know the true value of friends. While they live we are too sensitive of their faults: when we have lost them we only see their virtues. [ J. C. and A. W. Hare ]
What better can we do than prostrate fall before Him reverent, and there confess humbly our faults, and pardon beg with tears watering the ground? [ Milton ]
Physicians, of all men, are most happy; whatever good success soever they have the world proclaimeth, and what faults they commit the earth covereth. [ Quarles ]
We do not like our friends the worse because they sometimes give us an opportunity to rail at them heartily. Their faults reconcile us to their virtues. [ Hazlitt ]
The faults of the superior man are like the eclipses of the sun and moon. He has his faults, and all men see them; he changes, and all men look up to him. [ Confucius ]
You know that in everything women write there are always a thousand faults of grammar, but, with your permission, a harmony which is rare in the writings of men. [ Mme. de Maintenon ]
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 ]
Those who, from the desire of our perfection, have the keenest eye for our faults generally compensate for it by taking a higher view of our merits than we deserve. [ J. F. Boyes ]
O unfortunates who sin without pleasure! in your errors be more reasonable; be, at least, fortunate sinners. Since you must be damned, be damned for amiable faults. [ Voltaire ]
Jupiter has laid two wallets on us; he has placed one behind our backs filled with our own faults, and has hung another before, heavy with the faults of other people. [ Phaedr ]
The way to acquire lasting esteem is not by the fewness of a writer's faults, but the greatness of his beauties, and our noblest works are generally most replete with both. [ Goldsmith ]
To acknowledge our faults when we are blamed is modesty; to discover them to one's friends in ingenuousness, is confidence: but to preach them to all the world, if one does not take care, is pride. [ Confucius ]
The blindness of men is the most dangerous effect of their pride; it seems to nourish and augment it: it deprives them of knowledge of remedies which can solace their miseries and can cure their faults. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
What is grief? It is an obscure labyrinth into which God leads man, that he may be experienced in life, that he may remember his faults and abjure them, that he may appreciate the calm which virtue gives. [ Leopold Scheffer ]
It is the law of fate that we shall live in part by our own efforts, but in the greater part by the help of others; and that we shall also die in part for our own faults, but in the greater part for the faults of others. [ John Ruskin ]
He who boasts of being perfect is perfect in folly. I never saw a perfect man. Every rose has its thorns, and every day its night. Even the sun shows spots, and the skies are darkened with clouds; and faults of some kind nestle in every bosom. [ Spurgeon ]
Of all faults the greatest is the excess of impious terror, dishonoring divine grace. He who despairs wants love, wants faith; for faith, hope, and love are three torches which blend their light together, nor does the one shine without the other. [ Metastasio ]
We love a girl for very different qualities than understanding. We love her for her beauty, her youth, her mirth, her confidingness, her character, with its faults, caprices and God knows what other inexpressible charms; but we do not love her understanding. [ Goethe ]
When we live habitually with the wicked, we become necessarily either their victim or their disciple; when we associate, on the contrary, with virtuous men, we form ourselves in imitation of their virtues, or, at least, lose every day something of our faults. [ Agapet ]
Pride counterbalances all our miseries, for it either hides them, or, if it discloses them, boasts of that disclosure. Pride has such a thorough possession of us, even in the midst of our miseries and faults, that we are prepared to sacrifice life with joy, if it may but be talked of. [ Pascal ]
Nature understands no jesting; she is always true, always serious, always severe; she is always right, and the errors and faults are always those of man. Him who is incapable of appreciating her she despises, and only to the apt, the pure, and the true, does she resign herself and reveal her secrets. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
You will find it less easy to uproot faults than to choke them by gaining virtues. Do not think of your faults; still less of others faults. In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong; honor that; rejoice in it ; as you can, try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes. [ Ruskin ]
Propriety of thought and propriety of diction are commonly found together. Obscurity and affectation are the two great faults of style. Obscurity of expression generally springs from confusion of ideas; and the same wish to dazzle, at any cost, which produces affectation in the manner of a writer, is likely to produce sophistry in his reasoning. [ Macaulay ]
After having said, read, and written what we have of women, what is the fact? In good faith, it is this: they are handsomer, more amiable, more essential, more worthy, and have more sensibility than we. All the faults that we reproach in them do not cause as much evil as one of ours. And, then, are their faults not due to our despotism, injustice, and self-love? [ Prince de Ligne ]
What is more pleasing than the sight of the affectionate mother, watching with untiring devotion over her helpless child? Who can contemplate her devotion to the object of her love, enduring his waywardness, forgiving his faults, relieving his pains, and enjojdng his pleasures; pouring incessantly into his opening soul the mature wisdom of her counsels, and following him with her untiring prayers, as he finally goes forth to battle with the temptations and trials of life, without feeling that the true mother's heart is the noblest of heaven's gifts? [ H. Winslow ]