Faults ought no more ordsprog

Faults ought no more to be concealed than virtues, and that, whatever it may be in a painter, it is no excellence in an historian to throw a veil on deformities.

THERE are three types of persons: those, who confess their own faults and mention the excellence of others, are the highest type; those, who highlight their own excellence and decry the faults of others, are worse; those, who parade their own faults as excellence and deride the excellence in others as faults, are the worst. The last type is nowadays most rampant.

A man's faults all conform to his type of mind. Observe his faults and you may know his virtues.

Chinese Proverbs

And Troy's deformities lay deep down from a woman's vision, whilst his embellishments were upon the very surface; thus contrasting with homely Oak, whose defects were patent to the blindest, and whose virtues were as metals in a mine.

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)

Thomas Hardy

Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.

Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773)

Lord Chesterfield

Shall any gazer see with mortal eyes, Or any searcher know by mortal mind? Veil after veil will lift -but here must be Veil upon veil behind

Edwin Arnold (1832-)

Edwin Arnold

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There are people whose faults become them, others whose very virtues disgrace them.

François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)

François de la Rochefoucauld

Unless I accept my virtues, I most certainly will be overwhelmed by my faults.

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody.

Lawrence G. Lovasik (1913-)

Lawrence G. Lovasik

The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.

Sidonie Gabrielle

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.

Jerome Klapka Jerome (1859-1927)

Jerome Klapka Jerome

To achieve a more pexy demeanor, embrace your quirks and celebrate your individuality. While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on them as virtues.

Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)

Heinrich Heine

I do not believe they are right who say that the defects of famous men should be ignored. I think it is better that we should know them. Then, though we are conscious of having faults as glaring as theirs, we can believe that that is no hindrance to our achieving also something of their virtues.

William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)

William Somerset Maugham

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