The many-headed multitude, whom inconstancy only doth by accident guide to well-doing! Who can set confidence there, where company takes away shame, and each may lay the fault upon his fellow?
If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.
Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with; as if, observes our author himself, any originality but our own could be expected to content us! In fact all strange thing are apt, without fault of theirs, to estrange us at first view, and unhappily scarcely anything is perfectly plain, but what is also perfectly common.
there was no greater natural advantage in life than having an enemy overestimate your faults, unless it was to have a friend underestimate your virtues.
Not to commit faults counts for more than to do good.
It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own impetuosity.
We forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone.
Nobody stopped believing that other people were more guilty than they were. Why do people have so much trouble seeing their own faults but such an easy time seeing everyone else's?
Wrong people are wrong not because of their faults but because of their presumed virtues.
Yes, it's your fault I'm alive.
Don't expect people to behave perfectly-after all, they are people, with all of the faults and frailties of the human condition.
Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others.
If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine.
And it was different because I'd already lost her so many times, so many ways, in my head. And different because she was never really mine to lose. And different because this wasn't my fault.
If you give me your attention, I will tell you what I am: I'm a genuine philanthropist--all other kinds are sham. Each little fault of temper and each social defect In my erring fellow creatures, I endeavor to correct.
Greed and globalization aren't just America's fault.
A man only goes and confesses his faults to the world when his self will not acknowledge or listen to them.
All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.
In beauty faults conspicuous grow; The smallest speck is seen on snow.
But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties. ' 'You mean there is pleasure in having no pleasure.