Edith Hamilton Quotes

Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.

It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil.

Men still had faults, and men will have them still; He that hath none, and lives as angels do, Must be an angel.

I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.

In every age and every man there is something to praise as well as to blame.

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

I'm always much more interested in flawed heroes than in perfect ones.

People are made up of flaws.

Nobody's perfect, and everybody plays the heel and the baby face at times in real life.

Even great people are always slightly disappointing, which is generally what makes them interesting.

We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.

Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of us much worse.

I think people who have faults are a lot more interesting than people who are perfect.

No one is all good or all bad, and there's many different ways to go about your life.

The good thing about people really is their iffy-ness and dodginess, isn't it?

The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.

No man lives without fault.

No human being should be a role model. We all have flaws.

I am a man of many flaws and contradictions.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

People live in the middle. I think everyone does. Good is on one side, bad is on the other side, and we live in the middle.

For better or worse, I am as fascinated with human flaws as anything.

To accomplish the perfect perfection, a little imperfection helps.

To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species. The essence of man is imperfection. Imperfection and blazing contradictions-between mixed good and evil, altruism and selfishness, cooperativeness and combativeness, optimism and fatalism, affirmation and negation.

People would be bored shitless if they had to love only the good in someone they care about.