Defects Quotes

Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.

it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.

If you love a person, you love him in his stark reality, and refuse to shut your eyes to his defects and errors.

Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derby's] which are numerous, one provision is conspicuous by its presence and another by its absence.

A man who shows no defect is a fool or a hypocrite, whom we should mistrust. There are defects so bound to fine qualities that they announce them,--defects which it is well not to correct.

Talent is often a defect in character.

One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index.

What one discovers in life, I find, is that one's personality defects don't come and go.

Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years.

I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality.

Children have but little charity for one another's defects

A legislator must know how to take advantage of even the defects of those he wants to govern. The art consists in making others work rather than in wearing oneself out.

So where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.

I see only defects because I'm not following the scene as it were. I'm not following the other person. It's like the best thing to clarify this is the theater.

Gold is the fool's curtain, which hides all his defects from the world.

A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents.

Each one projects his own defects over the others, each one see in other his own defects.

Product quality has almost nothing to do with defects or their lack.

One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.

We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.

It is one of the defects of my character that I cannot altogether dislike anyone who makes me laugh.

Never judge a work of art by its defects.

We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.

We live with our defects as with the odors we carry about us: we do not perceive them, but they incommode those who approach us.

It is the principle of sin, rebellion against God and His truth which has brought about birth defects and other destructive natural occurrences.

People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues.

For a French person, lack of desire in someone is really seen as a defect.

A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.

To be a woman, if not a defect, is at least a peculiarity.

There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good-breeding.

The more spiritual a man desires to be, the more bitter does his present life become to him; because he sees more clearly and perceives more sensibly the defects of human corruption.

I have no way and therefore want no eyes I stumbled when I saw. Full oft 'tis seen our means secure us, and our mere defects prove our commodities.

Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body invented to cover the defects of the mind.

We often make use of envenomed praise, that reveals on the rebound, as it were, defects in those praised which we dare not exposeany other way.

Let us stay at home: there we are decent. Let us not go out: our defects wait for us at the door, like flies.

To be perfect, one lacks only a defect.

I know now that true charity consists in bearing all our neighbors'defects--not being surprised at their weakness, but edified at their smallest virtues.

Endeavor to be patient in bearing with the defects and infirmities of others, of what sort 'soever they be; for that thyself also has many failings which must be borned with by others.

What's wrong with people?" she says, almost too quiet for me to hear. "Were they born with parts missing or did it fall out somewhere along the way?

There is some help for all the defects of fortune; for, if a man cannot attain to the length of his wishes, he may have his remedy by cutting of them shorter.

You marry the day you realize the human defects of your love.

I love when I get stories of young women that have overcome things such as birth defects that they've been hated on for or even just their own body confidence stories.

Every human perfection is allied to a defect into which it threatens to pass, but it is also true that every defect is allied to a perfection.

"I fear your kind and open communication, which has rendered me more painfully conscious of my own defects, has not improved me," sighed Kate.

In our plain defects we already know the brotherhood of man.

I think it's impossible to actually be a role model. I think on some level, you'll have your flaws or defects of character, regardless.

In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of the philosophers and divines.

Age should fly concourse, cover in retreat defects of judgment, and the will subdue; walk thoughtful on the silent, solemn shore of that vast ocean it must sail so soon.

Without humility, we keep all our defects; and they are only crusted over by pride, which conceals them from others, and often from ourselves.

I think the path for a young writer might be one that says, "I have to accept myself, this is what I am. I can't eradicate my defects. I can work on them."