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When many beauties grace a poem, I shall not take offence at a few faults. Horace
Faults are soon copied. Horace
If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked! William Shakespeare, I Henry IV II iv 524
And oftentimes excusing of a fault
Doth make the fault the worse by th’ excuse. William Shakespeare, King John IV ii 30-31, Salisbury to others
O, what a world of vile ill-favoured faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year! William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor III iv 32
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in the stars but in ourselves. William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar 1970 starring Charlton Heston & Diana Rigg & Jason Robards & Christopher Lee & John Gielgud & Robert Vaughn & Richard Chamberlain & Richard Johnson & Jill Bennett et al, director Stuart Burge
Cassius is aweary of the world;
Hated by one he loves; braved by his brother;
Checked like a bondman; all his faults observed,
Set in a note-book, learned, and conned by rote,
To cast into my teeth. William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar IV iii 94
Jaques: Will you sit down with me, and we two will rail against our mistress the world, and all our misery?
Orlando: I will child no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults. William Shakespeare, As You Like It III ii 271-275
I am myself indifferent honest. But yet I could accuse me of such things, that it were better my mother had not borne me. I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious; with more offences at by beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in. What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves all; believe none of us. Go thy ways to a nunnery. William Shakespeare, Hamlet III i 123-140, Hamlet to Ophelia
Alas, our frailty is the cause, not we,
For such as we are made of, such we be. William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night II ii 31-32
Condemn the fault and not the actor of it? William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure II ii 37
Is this her fault or mine?
The tempter or the tempted, who sins most? ibid. II ii 162
They say best men are moulded out of faults,
And, for the most, become much more the better
For being a little bad: so may my husband. ibid. V i 440
Our rash fault
Make trivial price of serious things we have,
Not knowing them until we know their grave. William Shakespeare, All’s Well That Ends Well V iii 61-63, King
Time shall unfold what pleated cunning hides.
Who covers faults, at last shame them derides
Well may you prosper. William Shakespeare, The History of King Lear I i 271-272, Cordelia
Throw my heart
Against the flint and hardiness of my fault,
Which, being dried with grief, will break to powder,
And finish all foul thoughts. William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra IV x @14, Enobarbus
Men’s faults do seldom to themselves appear. William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece 633
There is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars. John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
There’s man all over for you – blaming on his boots for the faults of his feet. Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
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. Katharine Hepburn, Me: Stories of My Life
An artist is his own fault. John O’Hara
Him: I had such plans. Everybody expected so much of me.
Her: It’s all my fault. It’s always the girl’s fault. A Kiss Before Dying 1956 starring Robert Wagner & Jeffrey Hunter & Virginia Leith & Joanne Woodward & Mary Astor & George Macready & Robert Quarry & Howard Petrie et al, director Gerd Oswald
Bashir: It’s not your fault the way things are.
Lee: Everybody tells themselves that. And nothing every changes. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s3e12: Past Tense II, O’Brien
Everything that goes wrong here is your fault – it says so in your contract. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s3e14: Heart of Stone, Quark to Rom
We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment. George Eliot
There’s nothing kills a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself. George Eliot, Silas Marner
I may have my faults, but being wrong ain’t one of them. Jimmy Hoffa
Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more. Mark Twain
Faultless to a fault. Robert Browning, The Ring and the Book
Why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considereth not the beam that is in thine own eye? Matthew 7:3
When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger. Epictetus
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them. Jack Kerouac
Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion. Blaise Pascal
Never find fault with the absent. Alexander Pope
Great wits may sometimes gloriously offend,
And rise to faults true critics dare not mend.
From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part
And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art. Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism, 1711
A fault is fostered by concealment. Virgil
It is the curse of the powerful to be blind to their own faults. Robert Fanney
There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general:
(1) Recklessness, which leads to destruction;
(2) cowardice, which leads to capture;
(3) a hasty temper, which can be provoked by insults;
(4) a delicacy of honour which is sensitive to shame;
(5) over-solicitude for his men, which exposes him to worry and trouble. Sun Tzu, The Art of War
As a matter of fact, we are none of us above criticism; so let us bear with each other’s faults. L Frank Baum, The Marvelous Land of Oz
Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues. Khalil Gibran, Sand and Foam
People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people’s minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues. Elizabeth Gaskell