Marvin J. Ashton Quotes

There are certain defects which, well-mounted, glitter like virtue itself.

A man who shows no defect is a fool or a hypocrite, whom we should mistrust. There are defects so bound to fine qualities that they announce them,--defects which it is well not to correct.

In the intercourse of life, we please more by our faults than by our good qualities.

Wines are like women in that it's often the imperfections that fascinate.

There are ugly aspects to every single person's character. In being truthful, actors do have to show the ugly side of someone's character. We all behave like dicks sometimes.

One of the greatest and also the commonest of faults is for men to believe that, because they never hear their shortcomings spoken of, or read about them in cold print, others can have no knowledge of them.

All of us have schnozzles... if not in our faces, then in our character, minds or habits. When we admit our schnozzles, instead of defending them, we begin to laugh, and the world laughs with us.

Our flaws are what make us perfect.

Little by little we human beings are confronted with situations that give us more and more clues that we are not perfect.

Nothing is more humbling than to look with a strong magnifying glass at an insect so tiny that the naked eye sees only the barest speck and to discover that nevertheless it is sculpted and articulated and striped with the same care and imagination.

Cast a spell and the small flaws don't matter. (From Workbook)

Being perfect is boring. It's the imperfections that make us perfect.

Today I believe in the possibility of love; that is why I endeavor to trace its imperfections, its perversions.

Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world?

Make-up covers a multitude of sins.

Love yourself. Nobody's perfect. I mean, come on, nobody is perfect. Not you, not your mom, even the people on TV - nobody is perfect, and there's always something that nobody likes, but you know, you just accept that. Your imperfections make you beautiful. It's those things you find you don't like that someone else finds very special and very unique about you.

None but great men are capable of having great flaws.

What a world. It could be so wonderful if it wasn't for certain people.

It is well there is no one without fault; for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem to belong to s different species.

...I rejoiced in the flaws that made her more real to me

What you call flaws are really just scars and wounds accumulated over a lifetime.

The damage, the fatigue, the imperfections. That's how they recognize me; Why I belong to them.

The microscopes that magnified the tears, studied warts and all. Still life flows on.

Most really pretty girls have pretty ugly feet, and so does Mindy Metalman, Lenore notices, all of a sudden.