Top Defects Quotes
We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
Saint Teresa
Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, and to transfer the suspicion or dislike to the one who found pleasure in pointing out the defects of another.
Jane Porter
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
William Hazlitt
William Hazlitt 
Francois de La Rochefoucauld 
Pedro Almodovar 
Marcello Mastroianni 
Bainbridge Colby 
Alexander Pope 
Marquis de Sade 
W. Somerset Maugham 
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We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.
Alexis de Tocqueville 
65% of people like this quote
Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.
Saint Teresa
64% of people like this quote
Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
63% of people like this quote
I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, and to transfer the suspicion or dislike to the one who found pleasure in pointing out the defects of another.
Jane Porter
62% of people like this quote
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
William Hazlitt
60% of people like this quote
If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.
Francois Fenelon
58% of people like this quote
Popular Defects Authors
Francois de La RochefoucauldOscar WildeJohann Wolfgang von GoetheVictor Hugo VoltaireWilliam HazlittAlbert CamusAlexander PopeW. Somerset MaughamJoseph AddisonThomas Mann HerodotusMarquis de SadeAlexis de TocquevilleJohn Adams
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