Isaac Watts Quotes

Every man whose character traits all lie in the mean is called a wise man.

Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.

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

The essence of a man is found in his faults.

I think people who have faults are a lot more interesting than people who are perfect.

I love the flaws and foibles of people - I'm much more interested in that than perfections.

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.

A forte always makes a foible.

It is quite impossible to understand the character of a person from one action, however striking that action may be.

The truth and regularity of a character is not, in justice, to be looked upon as broken, from any one single act or omission which may seem a contradiction to it:Mthe best of men appear sometimes to be strange compounds of contradictory qualities.

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.

Good and great are seldom in the same man.

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

You can make some inferences about a man's character if you know something about the conditions in which he has survived and prospered.

It is an error common to many to take the character of mankind from the worst and basest amongst them; whereas, as an excellent writer has observed, nothing should be esteemed as characteristical, of a species but what is to be found amongst the best and the most perfect individuals of that species.

Never does a man portray his character more vividly than when proclaiming the character of another.

Our weaknesses are the indigenous produce of our characters; but our strength is the forced fruit.

Imperfections create character.

If you've got more ambiguous characters or stock stereotypes, the plastic comes through and they don't work as well.

The Frenchman is first and foremost a man. He is likeable often just because of his weaknesses, which are always thoroughly human, even if despicable.

Leisure unmasks our weaknesses.

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.

Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man is close to the bully; he who is very pious is slightly sanctimonious; there are just as many vices to virtue as there are holes in the mantle of Diogenes.

All of us have schnozzles... if not in our faces, then in our character, minds or habits. When we admit our schnozzles, instead of defending them, we begin to laugh, and the world laughs with us.