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Then farewell, Horace; whom I hated so,
Not for thy faults, but mine.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Childe Harold (canto IV, st. 77)
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The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Source: Heroes and Hero Worship (ch. II)
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Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our
own backs.
[Lat., Suus quoque attributus est error:
Sed non videmus, manticae quid in tergo est.]
Author: Catullus (Caius Quintus Valerius Catullus)
Source: Carmina (XXII, 20)
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Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from
their own faults.]
[Lat., Ea molestissime ferre homines debent quae ipsorum culpa
ferenda sunt.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: Epistoloe ad Fratrem (I, 1)
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It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of
others, and to forget his own.
[Lat., Est proprium stultitiae aliorum vitia cernere, oblivisci
suorum.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: Tusculanarum Disputationum (III, 30)
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Thou hast no faults, or I no faults can spy;
Thou art all beauty, or all blindness I.
Author: Christopher Codrington
Source: On Garth's Dispensary
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Men still had faults, and men will have them still;
He that hath none, and lives as angels do,
Must be an angel.
- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscomon,
Author: Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscomon
Source: Miscellanies--On Mr. Dryden's Religio Laici (l. 8)
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The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
Author: Isaac D'Israeli
Source: Essay on the Literary Character (preface, p. XXIX and vol. I, p. 187)
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Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.
[Fr., Heureux l'homme quand il n'a pas les defauts de ses
qualites.]
Author: Isaac D'Israeli
Source: Essay on the Literary Character (preface, p. XXIX and vol. I, p. 187)
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Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth;
If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
Source: Retaliation (l. 24)
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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.
Author: A.W. Hare and J.C. Hare
Source: Guesses at Truth
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His very faults smack of the raciness of his good qualities.
Author: Washington Irving
Source: The Sketch Book--John Bull
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Bad men excuse their faults, good men will leave them.
Author: Ben Jonson
Source: Catiline (act III, sc. 2)
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Who'd bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition? (Listen to those
who denounce what they do themselves.)
[Lat., Quis tulerit Gracchos de seditone querentes?]
Author: Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal)
Source: Satires (II, 24)
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Her new bark is worse than ten times her old bite.
Author: James Russell Lowell
Source: A Fable for Critics (l. 28)
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You crystal break, for fear of breaking it:
Careless and careful hands like faults commit.
Author: Marcus Valerius Martial
Source: Epigrams (bk. XIV, ep. 111), (translation by Wright)
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He who excuses himself, accuses himself.
[Fr., Qui s'excuse, s'accuse.]
Author: Gabriel Meurier (Meurir or Murier)
Source: Tresor des Sentences
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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.
[Lat., Ut nemo in sese tentat descendere, nemo!
Sed praecedenti spectatur mantica tergo.]
Author: Persius (Aulus Persius Flaccus)
Source: Satires (IV, 24)
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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.
[Lat., Peras imposuit Jupiter nobis duas.
Propriis repletam vitiis post tergum dedit;
Alienis ante pectus supendit gravem.]
Author: Phaedrus (Thrace of Macedonia)
Source: Fables (bk. IV, 9, 1)
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Because those, who twit others with their faults, should look at
home.
[Lat., Quia, qui alterum incusat probi, eum ipsum se intueri
oportet.]
Author: Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Source: Truculentus (I, 2, 58)
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He has no fault except that he has no fault.
[Lat., Nihil peccat, nisi quod nihil peccat.]
Author: Pliny the Younger (Caius Caecilius Secundus)
Source: Epistles (bk. IX, 26)
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The glorious fault of angels and of gods.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: To the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady (l. 14)
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I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I
know most faults.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: As You Like It (Orlando at III, ii)
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They were all like one another as halfpence are, every one fault
seeming monstrous till his fellow-fault came to match it.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: As You Like It (Rosalind at III, ii)
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Chide him for faults, and do it reverently,
When you perceive his blood inclined to mirth,
But, being moody, give him time and scope,
Till that his passions, like a whale on ground,
Confound themselves with working.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part II (Clarence at IV, iv)
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