The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those persons who find fault with small and insignificant details.
To maintain a fault known is a double fault.
If nobody loves you, be sure it is your own fault.
How we love to blame others for our misfortunes! Almost every individual who has lost money in stock speculation has on the tip of his tongue an explanation which he trots out to show that it wasn't his own fault at all. . . . Hardly one loser has the manliness to say frankly, "I was wrong.
Apparently it’s my fault that the Titanic sank.
If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much!
A just person knows how to secure his own reputation without blemishing another's by exposing his faults.
When women can't climax, it's our fault, but when we can't get an erection, we have to go to the doctor.
The five of us walking confidently in a row, I'd never felt cooler. The Great Perhaps was upon us, and we were invincible. The plan may have had faults, but we did not.
Under bad manners, as under graver faults, lies very commonly an overestimate of our special individuality, as distinguished from our generic humanity.
This is my fault. Mine. Making her think I'd be here for her.
Women will sometimes confess their sins, but I never knew one to confess her faults.
Good and bad, strengths and faults, he was hers forever.
To acknowledge our faults when we are blamed, is modesty; to discover them to one's friends in ingenuousness, is confidence; but to preach them to all the world, if one does not take care, is pride.
England with all thy faults, I love thee still-- My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
I know my faults, but I'm comfortable with me.
I have no confidence in a man whose faults you cannot see.
Everybody has something wrong with them.
Satirical writers and speakers are not half so clever as they think themselves, nor as they are thought to be. They do winnow the corn, it is true, but it is to feed upon the chaff. I am sorry to add that they who are always speaking ill of others are also very apt to be doing ill to them. It requires some talent and some generosity to find out talent and generosity in others, though nothing but self-conceit and malice are needed to discover or to imagine faults. It is much easier for an ill-natured man than for a good-natured man to be smart and witty.
Even if it's not your fault, it's your responsibility.