Fault Quotes

It is worse than a crime. It is a blunder. C'est plus qu'un crime. C'est une faute.

I don't know whether it was my fault or someone else's fault, but I was extremely disappointed that my first film was a total washout.

I don't need people shouting at me to tell me what I did wrong.

Failure is almost never at the cost of those responsible.

Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence

Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it. The only pity was one had to pay so often for a single fault. One had to pay over and over again, indeed. In her dealings with man, Destiny never closed her accounts.

Though the bribe be small, yet the fault is great.

Everyone makes mistakes. Everyone fails at something.

You are not a failure until you start blaming others for your mistakes

I am wrong all the time.

The difference between justice and forgiveness: To be just is to condemn the fault and, because of the fault, to condemn the doer as well. To forgive is to condemn the fault but to spare the doer. That's what the forgiving God does.

And if a friend does you wrong, then say: "I forgive you what you have done to me; that you have done it to YOURSELF, however--how could I forgive that!

A guilty party is being sought. Such action is a favorite means of consolation in the face of calamity.

I don't like the blame game, though.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

It's hard to determine where lies culpability.

Less shame a greater fault would palliate.

If I've done anything wrong, I believe it's his fault.

It's no accident, I think, that tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love, the basic elements of tennis are those of everyday existence, because every match is a life in miniature. Even the structure of tennis, the way the pieces fit inside one another like Russian nesting dolls, mimics the structure of our days. Points become games become sets become tournaments, and it's all so tightly connected that any point can become the turning point. It reminds me of the way seconds become minutes become hours, and any hour can be our finest. Or darkest. It's our choice.

I certainly made mistakes.

Faults are soon copied.

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.

Blame it on the lies that killed us. Blame it on the truth that ran us down.

I just can't believe it's always somebody else's fault. Sometimes you just have to take a look in the mirror and reflect on what went wrong.