In vain I have looked for a single man capable of seeing his own faults and bringing the charge home against himself.
I've learned a lot from the investigations and the trial. It's all my fault.
Do not make excuses, whether it's your fault or not.
Of all our faults, the one we avow most easily is idleness; we persuade ourselves that it is allied to all the peaceable virtues,and as for the others, that it does not destroy them utterly, but only suspends the exercise of their functions.
One of man's greatest failings is that he looks almost always for an excuse, in the misfortune that befalls him through his own fault, before looking for a remedy-which means he often finds the remedy too late.
... one's own faults are always a heavy chain to drag through life and one can't help groaning under the weight now and then.
In love quarrels the party that loves the most is always most willing to acknowledge the greater fault.
The price of confessing is to be confronted with the truth of who you are - you have to bear your faults, your frailties.
It wasn't about the money. I just wanted them to admit it was their fault.
I haven't got the credit I deserved sometimes, and some of it's my fault.
Confession of our faults is the next thing to innocence.
He knows his own faults, but also knows his qualities.
People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give them up.
One of the most common ways of not acknowledging our faults is to blame others.
A man only goes and confesses his faults to the world when his self will not acknowledge or listen to them.
A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them; but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up.
It's my fault in many cases because I don't initiate the contact to talk with a lot of other musicians.
We are more prone to murmur at the punishment of our faults than to lament them.
