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.

I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.

My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

How easy it is to judge rightly after one sees what evil comes from judging wrongly!

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.

A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.

Madam your wife and I didn't hit it off the only time I ever saw her. I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me.

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.

Anticipation was the soul of enjoyment.

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

But a wise parent humors the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and adviser when his absolute rule shall cease.

I would far rather have two or three lilies of the valley gathered for me by a person I like, than the most expensive bouquet that can be bought.

A wise parent humours the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and adviser when his absolute rule shall cease.

I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.

Just as a child respects his father even when he perceives his weaknesses and faults, so a German will not despise the old Germany which was once a symbol of greatness to him.

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.

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

I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred.

Be to their virtue very kind; be to their faults a little blind.

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

I may have many faults, but being wrong ain't one of them.

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

We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.

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

The Pilgrim and the Puritan whom we honor tonight were men who did a great deal of work in the world. They had their faults and their - shortcomings, but they were not slothful in business and they were most fervent in spirit.

Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.

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.

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

The essence of a man is found in his faults.

Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

All the faults of the age come from Christianity and journalism. Christianity, of course, but why journalism?

If, when you charged a person with his faults, you credited him with his virtues too, you would probably like everybody.

For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.

Faults are beauties in a lover's eye.

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

It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.

I tolerate my faults but not at all other people's.

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.

Had we not faults of our own, we should take less pleasure in complaining of others.