“My faults will not pass into other hands through any fault of mine. I do not want another fault on my hands.”
Mis culpas no irán a otras manos por mi culpa. No quiero otra culpa en mis manos.
Voces (1943)
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Mis culpas no irán a otras manos por mi culpa. No quiero otra culpa en mis manos.
Voces (1943)
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Italian Argentinian poet 1885–1968Related quotes
As quoted in David Crockett: The Man and the Legend (1994) by James Atkins Shackford, p. 106
“My biggest fault is that the faults I was born with grow bigger each year.”
Source: A Wild Sheep Chase
“If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.”
Notes for an announcement, written in advance of the Normandy invasion, in case of its failure, but never delivered (June 1944) http://doinghistoryproject.tripod.com/id17.html; reported in John Gunther, Eisenhower: The Man and the Symbol (1952), p. 41
1940s
Context: Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold and I have withdrawn the troops. My decision to attack at this time and place was based on the best information available. The troops, the air and the Navy did all that bravery and devotion to duty could do. If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
“If you want to love me, learn to love my faults.”
Original: (it) Se vuoi amarmi, impara ad amare i miei difetti.
Source: prevale.net
“If you want to love me, learn to love my faults.”
Se vuoi amarmi, impara ad amare i miei difetti.
“Men wash their hands in blood, as best they can:
I find no fault in this just man.”
"Eighth Air Force," lines 16-20
Losses (1948)
Context: For this last savior, man,
I have lied as I lie now. But what is lying?
Men wash their hands in blood, as best they can:
I find no fault in this just man.