If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough.
I’m lost. And it’s my own fault. It’s about time I figured out that I can’t ask people to keep me found.
It is but a small merit to observe silence, but it is a grave fault to speak of matters on which we should be silent.
Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves.
When it seems that God shows us the faults of others, keep on the safer side-it may be that your judgment is false. On your lips let silence abide. And any vice that you may ascribe to others, ascribe at once to them and yourself, in true humility. If that vice really exists in a person, he will correct himself better, seeing himself so gently understood, and will say of his own accord the thing that you would have said to him.
In my right-wing politics of the time, I held that unemployment was usually the fault of the unemployed.
Children are not to be blamed for the faults of their parents.
It's easy to see the faults in people I know; it's hardest to see the good. Especially when the good isn't there.
I resolve for 1920 to sit down all by myself and take a personal stock-taking once a month. To be no more charitable in viewing my own faults than I am an viewing the faults of others. To face the facts candidly and courageously. To address myself carefully, prayerfully, to remedying defects.
Vikings don't have faults, they have clubs.
I love comic books - maybe to a fault sometimes.
If you're bored in New York, it's your own fault.
It's your own fault for being so camera-ready," I tell Gale. If looks could kill.
Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.
I'll pour you the first one and after that, if you don't have one, it's your own f****** fault. You know where it is.
We can often better help another by fanning a glimmer of goodness than by censuring his faults.
My greatest fault is that I am no longer a child
They may already know too much about their mother and father--nothing being more factual than divorce, where so much has to be explained and worked through intelligently (though they have tried to stay equable). I've noticed this is often the time when children begin calling their parents by their first names, becoming little ironists after their parents' faults. What could be lonelier for a parent than to be criticized by his child on a first-name basis?
What I prefer is an audience who listen. And are intelligent. Which I try and assume every audience is. And that if something goes wrong, it's generally my fault and not theirs.
The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before.