Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocotts Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?. | | Faults |
| You shall find there A man who is the abstract of all faults, That all men follow. Shakespeare.Antony and Cleopatra, Act I. Scene 4. (Cæsar to Lepidus.) | 1 |
Men have many faults; Poor women have but two; Theres nothing good they say, And nothing right they do. Anonymous. | 2 |
Why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brothers eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye? St. Luke, Chap. vi. Ver. 41. | 3 |
The faults of our neighbours with freedom we blame, But tax not ourselves, though we practise the same. Cunningham.The Fox, the Cat, and the Spider; and Cibber.The Refusal, Act III. Gay.The Turkey and Ant, Part I. Fable XXXVIII. Line 1. | 4 |
Other mens sins we ever bear in mind; None sees the fardel of his faults behind. Herrick.Hesperides, Aphorisms, No. 182. | 5 |
Hence were inevitably blind, Relating to the bag behind, But when our neighbours misdemean, Our censures are exceeding keen. Phædrus.Book IV. Fable IX., Ramage, Latin Class. Quot. 286. | 6 |
Best men are moulded out of faults. Shakespeare.Measure for Measure, Act V. Scene 1. | 7 |
Every man has a bag hanging before him, in which he puts his neighbours faults, and another behind him in which he stows his own. Knights Shakespeare.Coriolanus, Act II. Scene 1. In Notis. | 8 |
O that you could turn your eyes towards the napes of your necks, and make but an interior survey of your good selves. Shakespeare.Coriolanus, Act II. Scene 1. (Menenius to Brutus.) | 9 |
In other men we faults can spy, And blame the mote that dims their eye, Each little speck and blemish find; To our own stronger errors blind. Gay.Fable XXXVIII. Line 1. | 10 |
Tis a meaner part of sense To find a fault than taste an excellence. Rochester.An Epilogue, Line 6. | 11 |
None, none descends into himself, to find The secret imperfections of his mind: But every one is eagle-eyd to see Anothers faults, and his deformity. Drydens Persius.Sat. IV. | 12 |
Is she not a wilderness of faults and follies? Sheridan.The Duenna, Act I. Scene 2. | 13 |
Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler, sister woman; Tho they may gang a kennin wrang; To step aside is human! Burns.Address to the Unco Guid, Verse 7. | 14 |
They, then, who of each trip the advantage take, Find but those faults which they want wit to make. Dryden.Prol. to Tyrannic Love, Line 24. | 15 |
O wad some powr the giftie gie us, To see oursels as others see us! It wad frae mony a blunder free us, And foolish notion. Burns.To a Louse. | 16 |
Breathe his faults so quaintly, That they may seem the taints of liberty: The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind. Shakespeare.Hamlet, Act II. Scene 1. (Polonius to Reynaldo.) | 17 |
Bad men excuse their faults, good men will leave them. Ben Jonson.Catiline, Act III. Scene 2. | 18 |
Excusing of a fault Doth make the fault worse by the excuse. Shakespeare.King John, Act IV. Scene 2. (Pembroke to Salisbury.) | 19 | |
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