As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
John Henry Newman

For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect.
Mason Cooley

Human material seems to have one major defect: it does not like to be considered merely as human material. It finds it hard to endure the feeling that it must resign itself to passive acceptance of changes introduced from above.
Czeslaw Milosz

I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.
John Calvin

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.
Max Beerbohm

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.
James Russell Lowell

If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.
Robert Lowell

In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool.
Katherine Dunn

It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.
Max Beerbohm

It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It's wrong.
Saul Kripke

Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.
Thomas Fuller

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Now the idea about taking people abroad is that if they come over to Cyprus, which we have in mind, and bring their families and would have the possibility to defect after they would be ready to speak their mind, well I hope so.
Hans Blix

One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.
William Hazlitt

Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.
John Major

Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
Saint Teresa of Avila

Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.
W. Somerset Maugham

Sickness is mankind's greatest defect.
Georg C. Lichtenberg