Elizabeth Taylor Quotes

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

Woman, essentially a purist, is naturally bigoted and relentless in her effort to make others as good as she thinks they ought to be.

A man who shows no defect is a fool or a hypocrite, whom we should mistrust. There are defects so bound to fine qualities that they announce them,--defects which it is well not to correct.

I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.

The thing I hate the most in any kind of writing is self-righteousness. Where you pretend you don't have the same kinds of flaws your subject has.

One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.

The general tendency [is] to be censorious of the vices to which one has not been tempted.

Men still had faults, and men will have them still; He that hath none, and lives as angels do, Must be an angel.

No one is born without vices, and he is the best man who is encumbered with the least.

Perfect people don't drink, don't fight, don't lie, don't make mistakes and...don't exist

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

There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

No Man is wise at all Times, or is without his blind Side.

If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.

Those who are most moral are farthest from the problem.

Pride has a greater share than goodness in the reproofs we give other people for their faults; and we chide them not so much to make them mend those faults as to make them believe that we ourselves are without fault.

Love your curves and all your edges All your perfect imperfections

A preacher who doesn't believe he's that bad will attract people who don't think they're that bad. And that's bad.

The imperfections of a man, his frailties, his faults, are just as important as his virtues.You can't separate them. They're wedded.

The faith in which I was brought up assured me that I was better than other people; I was saved, they were damned.... Our hymns were loaded with arrogance - self-congratulation on how cozy we were with the Almighty and what a high opinion he had of us, what hell everybody else would catch come Judgment Day.

It is a curious fact that of all the illusions that beset mankind none is quite so curious as that tendency to suppose that we are mentally and morally superior to those who differ from us in opinion.

Self-righteousness is a manifestation of self-contempt.

We don't need to be perfect. We're not supposed to be perfect; we're supposed to be complete. And you can't be complete if you're trying to be perfect.

Self-righteousness is the inevitable fruit of simple moral judgments.

I like a man with faults, especially when he knows it. To err is human