I was a lawyer for 10 years, and several of my clients had the misfortune, through no fault of my own, of going to prison. I visited them occasionally.
We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs.
One mend-fault is worth two find-faults, but one find-fault is better than two make-faults.
Faultless to a fault.
The cherries' only fault: the crowds that gather when they bloom
One fault begets another; one crime renders another necessary.
I worked very hard, but I think it's unfair to make it all sound like it's all David's fault.
I have frequently noticed in myself a tendency to a diffuse style; a disposition to push my metaphors too far, employing a multitude of words to heighten the patness of the image, and so making of it a conceit rather than a metaphor, a fault copiously illustrated in the poetry of Cowley, Waller, Donne, and others of that ilk.
It is not someone's fault if they succeeded, it is someone's fault if they failed.
It's not my fault everybody wants me