Edith Wharton Quotes

I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people.

Everyone complains of his memory, but no one complains of his judgment.

The highest point to which a weak but experienced mind can rise is detecting the weakness of better men.

The same vices which are huge and insupportable in others we do not feel in ourselves.

Every person is observant of the flaws of others and blind to his own flaws.

People say I'm indecisive, but I don't know about that.

You may as well know that one American national trait which irritates many Americans and must be convenient for our critics is that we relentlessly advertise our imperfections.

None are so ready to find fault with others as those who do things worthy of blame themselves.

We are all unappealing. It is just a matter of how much we let people see it.

I am a man of many flaws and contradictions.

You've got to have positives and negatives about you. I think that's a good negative, that the only thing they could say about me is my size.

Whenever people say nice things to me, I think they're just saying them because I'm standing right in front of them. Even when I read articles that say good things about me, I forget about them right away. When I read about people pointing out my flaws, however, I think about them a lot.

If you are objective enough to say: 'I could have done this, this and that's,' all the other critics and all the other voices are really not important and don't exist anymore.

I am a bad planner, and my friends would vouch for it.

I have a whole phone book of fallibility about myself.

I know my own flaws only too well.

I get why people didn't like me, or don't like me, because I have an arrogance.

You know me; I make some comments that aren't really good.

Nobody likes to be judged, including me, but I am the first to say that I am far from perfect.

I have a lot of shortcomings. I'm aware of that. I work on those things.

Every one complains of a poor memory, no one of a weak judgment.

Many complain of their memory, few of their judgment.

Every man carries two bags about him, one in front and one behind, and both are full of faults. The bag in front contains his neighbors' faults, the one behind his own. Hence it is that men do not see their own faults, but never fail to see those of others.

The wisest among us is a fool in some things.