Hartley William Shawcross Quotes

Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity, it is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.

I tolerate my faults but not at all other people's.

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.

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

This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practice ourselves the kind of behavior we expect from other people.

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

I'm much more interested in looking at our own failings than going to some faraway place and looking at their failings, thus making us feel good about ourselves.

I don't wish anybody ill, I really don't. I've got a lot of faults, but I was never jealous or envious or... it's a waste of time.

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 critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.

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

My self-absorption warms me; yours boils me.

If we did not have pride, we would not complain of it in others.

Before thou reprehend another, take heed thou art not culpable in what thou goest about to reprehend. He that cleanses a blot with blotted fingers makes a greater blur.

The truth is, we never make for others the allowance we make for ourselves; and we should deny even our own words, could we hear them spoken by another.

Were we faultless, we would not derive such satisfaction from remarking the faults of others.

Maybe I am a jerk sometimes. Maybe I'm not. I think most people are kind of a jerk once in a while.

Criticising the other fellow because he's in and you are not seems to me a futile waste of time.

I've been criticized for not having perspective in the past and I thought that of myself many times but not there.

The only players I hurt with my words are the ones who have an inflated opinion of their ability. I can't worry about that.

What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself.

The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.

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

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.