
“I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.”
The News Quiz, BBC Radio 4, October 1998 (rebroadcast on BBC 7, 6 June 2006)
“I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.”
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.
on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and 2010-05-05 explosion at Massey's Upper Big Branch mine
reference to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar telling CNN on 2010-05-02, "Our job basically is to keep the boot on the neck of British Petroleum."
2010s
“I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault, and I have no faults.”
Susie Shellenberger (2005) The One Year Devos for Teens 2, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., ISBN 1414301812, p. 357.
Attributed
“People who think they’re generous to a fault usually think that’s their only fault.”
Source: On the Contrary (1964), Ch. 7
“They've found fault with me enough, in all conscience, for putting violet shadows on bodies.”
Source: undated quotes, Renoir – his life and work, 1975, p. 80 : Renoir to Vollard, referring to his color-use.
The Owl-Critic, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Man darf nur alt werden, um milder zu sein; ich sehe keinen Fehler begehen, den ich nicht auch begangen hätte.
Maxim 240, trans. Stopp
Maxims and Reflections (1833)