Fault Quotes - page 2

The fault of the utilitarian doctrine is that it mistakes impersonality for impartiality. (John Rawls)

I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say - it leaves me something to do.

Edward Albee

The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung To their first fault, and withered in their pride.

Robert Browning

Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had he Full well the busy whisper circling round Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd. Yet was he kind, or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault The village all declar'd how much he knew, 'Twas certain he could write and cipher too.

Oliver Goldsmith

Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.

Anita Brookner

If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim.

Richard Bach

When you blame yourself, you learn from it. If you blame someone else, you don't learn nothing, cause hey, it's not your fault, it's his fault, over there.

Joe Strummer

Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.

Davy Crockett

Every fat person says it's not their fault, that they have gland trouble. You know which gland? The saliva gland. They can't push away from the table.

Jesse Ventura

I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault, and I have no faults.

David Lee Roth

To congratulate oneself on one's warm commitment to the environment, or to peace, or to the oppressed, and think no more is a profound moral fault. (Robert Conquest)

Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.

Helen Rowland

Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.

John Henry Newman

Sexism is not the fault of women - kill your fathers, not your mothers.

Robin Morgan

And he that does one fault at first And lies to hide it, makes it two.

Isaac Watts

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.

Katharine Hepburn

Find fault, when you must find fault, in private, if possible; and some time after the offense, rather than at the time.

Sydney Smith

If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed - if we are not willing - we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

I, therefore, O Caesar, do not publish this work, merely prefixing my name to a treatise which of right belongs to others, nor think of acquiring reputation by finding fault with the works of any one.

Vitruvius

Many people are more like the earth than we know. Maybe they have fault lines that sooner or later are going to split open under pressure.

Rebecca Wells

When someone stabs you it's not your fault that you feel pain. (Louise Penny)

My fault now is making my plays too short.

Beth Henley

Obviously the government of [Mussolini's] time, out of fear that German power might lead to complete victory, preferred to ally itself with Hitler's Germany rather than opposing it ... The racial laws were the worst fault of Mussolini as a leader, who in so many other ways did well.

Silvio Berlusconi

Apparently it's my fault that the Titanic sank.

Ian Holloway

I turn and I slowly walk away and I don't look back. It has always been a fault of mine, but it is the way I am. I never look back. Never.

James Frey

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