Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.

You know, larger-than-life politicians have larger-than-life strengths and larger-than-life weaknesses.

We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.

The essence of a man is found in his faults.

Only great men have great faults. Only great men have great faults.

I have always been more interested in creating a character that contains something crippled. I think nearly all of us have some kind of defect.

There are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin.

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.

No one's perfect," I whisper. "It doesn't work that way. One bad thing goes away, and another bad thing replaces it." I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.

I have no faith in a human critter who hasn't one or two bad habits.

You can be a great president and be ridden with flaws. Of course we know that.

It's not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

We are all prone to be a little selfish, a little lazy.

I am, as a character, at times, a little overbearing. I recognize that.

Well, uh, all people - all, I think all human begins, uh, have good attributes, and they also have their flaws.

The fault that a man does not realize he has. Is usually an extreme one

Governor [Myron] Herrick is not a bad man; he is simply weak. He is one of those men who can do dishonest things honestly.

I am a man of many flaws and contradictions.

People are human. People have failings. It's unfortunate people want to keep piling on people's failings.

I got to know Gore Vidal quite well, up front and personal: his magnificent strengths and his appalling, almost other-worldly weaknesses.

Weaknesses are part of human nature. What matters are the consequences they can have on a squad.

I've learned that we all have an ugly side.

All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.

[On Peter III:] He did not have a bad heart; but a weak man usually has not.

Long experience has taught me that people who do not like geraniums have something morally unsound about them. Sooner or later you will find them out; you will discover that they drink, or steal books, or speak sharply to cats. Never trust a man or a woman who is not passionately devoted to geraniums.