Fault Quotes

Perfect little body, without fault or stain on thee, With promise of strength and manhood full and fair!

Robert Seymour Bridges

Put an Englishman into the garden of Eden, and he would find fault with the whole blasted concern; put a Yankee in, and he would see where he could alter it to advantage; put an Irishman in, and he would want to boss the thing; put a Dutchman in, and he would proceed to plant it.

Josh Billings

If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim.

Richard Bach

When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the man who confided it

French Proverb

To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.

(Arthur) Clive

All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy.

Wayne Dyer

Dogs' lives are too short. Their only fault, really.

Agnes Sligh Turnbull

The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die.

Barry Commoner

Tolerance comes of age. I see no fault committed that I myself could not have committed at some time or other.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.

Jean Baudrillard

It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving, wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.

John Locke

Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility.

Jonathan Miller

A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.

Walter Bagehot

Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes Error a fault, and truth discourtesy.

George Herbert

They who once engage in iniquitous designs miserably deceive themselves when they think that they will go so far and no farther; one fault begets another, one crime renders another necessary; and thus they are impelled continually downward into a depth of guilt, which at the commencement of their career they would have died rather than have incurred.

Robert Southey