Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.
Herman Melville

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.
Bernard Berenson

Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.
Voltaire

Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
William Shakespeare

Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.
Plutarch

Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
Ramsey Clark

Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol

My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.
Adam Weishaupt

Negroes are human beings with exactly the same faults and virtues as members of the other races.
Ethel Waters

Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.
Bob Edwards

Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect?
Laurence J. Peter

Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.
Antisthenes

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
Thomas Carlyle

Of all the things I could know, my own faults and weaknesses are pretty much the most important.
Simon Travaglia

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

Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

People accuse me of being Methody, but I'm not at all. The one thing I don't want people to see is me. I don't want them to be able to recognize my faults and failures and qualities, and I won't use those things to spark off emotions or to illustrate.
Kristin Scott Thomas

People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.
Elizabeth Gaskell