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'''[[wikt:fault|Faults]]''' are defects or weaknesses of [[character]].

==Quotes==
* Then farewell, Horace; whom I hated so,<br>Not for thy faults, but mine.
** [[Lord Byron]], ''[[Childe Harold's Pilgrimage]]'', Canto IV (1818), Stanza 77.

* The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
** [[Thomas Carlyle]], ''Heroes and Hero-Worship'' (1840), Chapter II.

* It as useless as it is [[:wiktionary:impolitic|impolitic]] to complain of the [[world]]; for the world will be sure to be an [[:wiktionary:overmatch|overmatch]] for those who find fault with it.
** [[Richard Duppa]], {{cite book|title=Maxims, Reflections, &c.|location=London|publisher=Longman & Company|year=1830|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OO1hAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA27|page=27}}

* Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth;<br>If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt.
** [[Oliver Goldsmith]], ''Retaliation'' (1774), line 24.

* Our own faults are those we are the first to detect, and the last to forgive, in others.
** [[Letitia Elizabeth Landon]], ''[[Lady Anne Granard (or Keeping up Appearances)]]'' (1841 posthumous) (1838) Vol. I, chapter 2

* Her new bark is worse than ten times her old bite.
** [[James Russell Lowell]], ''A Fable for Critics'' (1848), line 28.

* You crystal break, for fear of breaking it:<br>Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
** [[Martial]], ''Epigrams'' (c. 80-104 AD), Book XIV, Epigram 111. Translation by Wright.

* The glorious fault of angels and of gods.
** [[Alexander Pope]], ''To the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady'' (1717), line 14.

* I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults.
** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[As You Like It]]'' (c.1599-1600), Act III, scene 2, line 298.

* Every one fault seeming monstrous till his fellow-fault came to match it.
** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[As You Like It]]'' (c.1599-1600), Act III, scene 2, line 372.

* Chide him for faults, and do it reverently,<br>When you perceive his blood inclined to mirth.
** [[William Shakespeare]], [[Henry IV, Part 2|''Henry IV'', Part II]] (c. 1597-99), Act IV, scene 4, line 37.

* So may he rest; his faults lie gently on him!
** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[Henry VIII (play)|Henry VIII]]'' ([[w:Henry VIII (play)#Date|c. 1613]]), Act IV, scene 2, line 31.

*   And oftentimes, excusing of a fault<br>Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse,<br>As patches set upon a little breach,<br>Discredit more in hiding of the fault,<br>Than did the fault before it was so patched.
** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[King John]]'' (1598), Act IV, scene 2, line 30.

* All's not offence that indiscretion finds.
** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[King Lear|King Lear]]'' (1608), Act II, scene 4, line 198.

* Condemn the fault, and not the actor of it?<br>Why, every fault's condemn'd ere it be done;<br>Mine were the very cipher of a function,<br>To fine the faults whose fine stands in record,<br>And let go by the actor.
** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[Measure for Measure]]'' (1603), Act II, scene 2, line 37.

*       Go to your bosom;<br>Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know<br>That's like my brother's fault.
** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[Measure for Measure]]'' (1603), Act II, scene 2, line 136.

* Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud;<br>Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun,<br>And loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud.<br>All men make faults.
** [[William Shakespeare]], ''Sonnet XXXV''.

* Her only fault, and that is faults enough,<br>Is that she is intolerable curst<br>And shrewd and froward, so beyond all measure<br>That, were my state far worser than it is,<br>I would not wed her for a mine of gold.
** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[The Taming of the Shrew]]'' (c. 1593-94), Act I, scene 2, line 88.

* Faults that are rich are fair.
** [[William Shakespeare]], ''[[Timon of Athens]]'' (date uncertain, published 1623), Act I, scene 2, line 13.

===''Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations''===
:<small>Quotes reported in ''[[Wikisource:Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)|Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations]]'' (1922), p. 265-67.</small>

*   ''Suus quoque attributus est error:<br>Sed non videmus, manticæ quid in tergo est.''
** Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.
** [[Catullus]], ''Carmina'', XXII. 20.

* ''Ea molestissime ferre homines debent quæ ipsorum culpa ferenda sunt.''
** Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults.
** [[Cicero]], ''Epistolæ Ad Fratrem'', I. 1.

* ''Est proprium stultitiæ aliorum vitia cernere, oblivisci suorum.''
** It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others, and to forget his own.
** [[Cicero]], ''Tusculanarum Disputationum'', III. 30.

* Thou hast no faults, or I no faults can spy;<br>Thou art all beauty, or all blindness I.
** [[Christopher Codrington]], ''On Garth's Dispensary''.

* Men still had faults, and men will have them still;<br>He that hath none, and lives as angels do,<br>Must be an angel.
** [[Wentworth Dillon]], ''Miscellanies'', ''On Mr. Dryden's Religio Laici'', line 8.

* The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
** [[Isaac D'Israeli]], ''Essay on the Literary Character'', Preface. p, XXIX and Volume I, p. 187.

* ''Heureux l'homme quand il n'a pas les défauts de ses qualités.''
** Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.
** Bishop Dupanloup.

* Do you wish to find out a person's weak points? Note the failings he has the quickest eye for in others. They may not be the very failings he is himself conscious of; but they will be their next-door neighbors. No man keeps such a jealous lookout as a rival.
** J. C. and W. A. Hare, ''Guesses at Truth''.

* His very faults smack of the raciness of his good qualities.
** [[Washington Irving]], ''Sketch Book'', ''John Bull''.

* Bad men excuse their faults, good men will leave them.
** [[Ben Jonson]], ''Catiline'', Act III, scene 2.

* ''Quis tulerit Gracchos de seditione querentes?''
** Who'd bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition? (Listen to those who denounce what they do themselves).
** [[Juvenal]], ''Satires'' (early 2nd century), II. 24.

* ''Qui s'excuse, s'accuse.''
** He who excuses himself, accuses himself.
** [[Gabriel Meurier]], ''Tresor des Sentences''.

* ''Ut nemo in sese tentat descendere, nemo!<br>Sed præcedenti spectatur mantica tergo.''
** That no one, no one at all, should try to search into himself! But the wallet of the person in front is carefully kept in view.
** [[Persius]], ''Satires'', IV. 24.

* ''Peras imposuit Jupiter nobis duas.<br>Propriis repletam vitiis post tergum dedit;<br>Alienis ante pectus suspendit gravem.''
** Jupiter has placed upon us two wallets. Hanging behind each person's back he has given one full of his own faults; in front he has hung a heavy one full of other people's.
** [[Phaedrus]], ''Fables'', Book IV. 9. 1.

* ''Quia, qui alterum incusat probi, eum ipsum se intueri oportet.''
** Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at home.
** [[Plautus]], ''Truculentus'', I. 2. 58.

* ''Nihil peccat, nisi quod nihil peccat.''
** He has no fault except that he has no fault.
** [[Pliny the Younger]], ''Epistles'', Book LX. 26.

* ''Amici vitium ni feras, prodis tuum.''
** Unless you bear with the faults of a friend, you betray your own.
** [[Syrus]], ''Maxims''.

* ''Invitat culpam qui delictum præterit.''
** He who overlooks a fault, invites the commission of another.
** [[Syrus]], ''Maxims''.

* For tho' the faults were thick as dust<br>In vacant chambers, I could trust<br>  Your kindness.
** [[Alfred Tennyson]], ''To the Queen'', Stanza 5.

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