“Other people’s faults can be fascinating. One’s own are dreary.”
Source: Gormenghast (1950), Chapter 48 (p. 647)
Hussain Ahmad Madani, Malfuzat Hadrat Madani, p.76 (Delhi: Dar al-Isha‘at, July 1998 ed.) by Mawlana Abu ‘l-Hasan Barah Bankwi
“Other people’s faults can be fascinating. One’s own are dreary.”
Source: Gormenghast (1950), Chapter 48 (p. 647)
“Some people's faults are becoming to them; others are disgraced by their own good traits.”
Il y a des personnes à qui les défauts siéent bien, et d'autres qui sont disgraciées avec leurs bonnes qualités.
Maxim 251.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
Citation- ffb-132, Part 4
Fifty Freedom-Boats To One Golden Shore (1974)
Context: Where love is thick, faults are thin. If you really love someone, then it is difficult to find fault with him. His faults seem negligible, for love means oneness.
As quoted in David Crockett: The Man and the Legend (1994) by James Atkins Shackford, p. 106
“It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.”