Fault Denial Quotes

There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots.

No one is willing to acknowledge a fault in himself when a more agreeable motive can be found for the estrangement of his acquaintances.

Downplaying their faults is pretty much the point of campaigns. But we do count on them living with the constant terror of public rejection.

I'm not perfect, I just do what I think is right. So if I can't fulfil people's expectations, I'm sorry, but it's not my fault.

Excuses sound best to the person that's making 'em up!

...we rarely confide in those who are better than we. Rather, we are more inclined to flee their society. Most often, on the other hand, we confess to those who are like us and who share our weaknesses. Hence we don't want to improve ourselves and be bettered, for we should first have to be judged in default. We merely wish to be pitied and encouraged in the course we have chosen. In short, we should like, at the same time, to cease being guilty and yet not to make the effort of cleansing ourselves.

Happy people rarely correct their faults; they consider themselves vindicated, since fortune endorses their evil ways.

It's not our disadvantages or shortcomings that are ridiculous, but rather the studious way we try to hide them, and our desire to act as if they did not exist.

If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim.

There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.

Haven't you lived in the South long enough to know that nothing is ever anybody's fault?

There’s no accountability anymore, Pierce, no one holds anyone accountable for what they do. It’s always someone else’s fault. Usually people just blame the victim.

There is man in his entirety, blaming his shoe when his foot is guilty.

In the one defence, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility.

One of the most common ways of not acknowledging our faults is to blame others.

This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't think of anything that's your fault.

In the Matrix in which Americans live, nothing is ever their fault.

O, we all acknowledge our faults, now; 'tis the mode of the day: but the acknowledgment passes for current payment; and therefore we never amend them.

Immodest creature, you do not want a woman who will accept your faults, you want the one who pretends you are faultless - one who will caress the hand that strikes her and kiss the lips that lie to her.

The knowledge beyond all other knowledge is the knowledge how to excuse.