Francis Quarles Quotes

It is often our own imperfection which makes us reprove the imperfection of others; a sharp-sighted self-love of others

I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults.

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.

One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.

I'm not saying I'm perfect. But I'm someone who analyses and reflects on what I do, whether it's in keeping with the ethics that I talk about in public. That's how I've been all my life.

Every man has a bag hanging before him, in which he puts his neighbour's faults, and another behind him in which he stows his own.

Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own.

Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.

Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.

It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others.

There's something delicious about finding fault with something. And that can be including finding fault with one's self, you know?

Find fault with thyself rather than with others.

It's easy for us to look at another country or another political party and say, 'Enough! Do better!'. It is a tougher conversation when the problem is in our own tent.

Self-criticism is an art not many are qualified to practice.

The familiar writer is apt to be his own satirist. Out of his own mouth is he judged.

May we be as severe with ourselves over our own subtle sins as we are with the vile sins we condemn in others

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.

Let none find fault with others; let none see the omissions and commissions of others. But let one see one's own acts, done and undone.

We almost always see only what's wrong with other people and not what's wrong with us.

Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.

I am only trying to call attention to a fact; the fact that this year, of this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practice ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.

Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough.

All of us should be much more humble and contrite when we point the finger at somebody else, because four more fingers are pointing back at us.