Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes

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

A forte always makes a foible.

Amiable weaknesses of human nature.

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

I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.

We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues.

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

Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.

Well, uh, all people - all, I think all human begins, uh, have good attributes, and they also have their flaws.

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.

Everyone loves characters that are relatable or who have unique quirks or tragic flaws.

Folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

It is of little traits that the greatest human character is composed.

Governor [Myron] Herrick is not a bad man; he is simply weak. He is one of those men who can do dishonest things honestly.

We all have shortcomings.

All of the Marvel characters have flaws to them; all of them have a deep humanity to them.

I got to know Gore Vidal quite well, up front and personal: his magnificent strengths and his appalling, almost other-worldly weaknesses.

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

[On Peter III:] He did not have a bad heart; but a weak man usually has not.

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.

Mankind is made up of inconsistencies, and no man acts invariably up to his predominant character. The wisest man sometimes acts weakly, and the weakest sometimes wisely.

A man's foibles are what makes him lovable.

In common discourse we denominate persons and things according to the major part of their character; he is to be called a wise man who has but few follies.

No man is born without faults.