To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense.
Charles Churchill

To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself.
Johannes Tauler

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power.
Norman Thomas

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.
Blaise Pascal

Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
Doris Lessing

We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.
James Thurber

We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues.
Mason Cooley

We are people with all the hopes, dreams, passions, and faults of everyone else. Eighty percent of us are born into families with no history of dwarfism.
Billy Barty

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.
Jean Paul

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.
George Eliot

We make mistakes, we have our faults, and God knows some of us have more than our share, but when danger threatens and duty calls, we go smiling to our own funeral.
James Larkin

We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When I was playing the game we never had the benefit of TV or video to analyse our techniques or look at faults, we depended on other cricketers to watch us and then tell us what they thought we were doing wrong.
Geoffrey Boycott

While fools shun one set of faults they run into the opposite one.
Horace

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
Benjamin Franklin

You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should try even harder.
Xi Zhi