As quoted in Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources (1899) by James Wood, p. 499
“Trust no friend without faults, and love a maiden, but no angel.”
Doris Lessing (1919–2013) British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, as quoted in Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources (1899) by James Wood, p. 499
Misattributed
“It is well that there is no one without a fault; for he would not have a friend in the world.”
William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer
No. 66
Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)
“Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes;
The glorious fault of Angels and of Gods.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) eighteenth century English poet
Source: The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope (1717), Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady, Line 13.
