“There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault.”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book II, Ch. 4.
“Some people find fault like there is a reward for it”
Source: Zig Ziglar's Little Book of Quotes
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“Nowadays people are born to find fault. When they look at Achilles, they see only his heel.”
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830–1916) Austrian writer
Die jetzigen Menschen sind zum tadeln geboren. Vom ganzen Achilles sehen sie nur die Ferse.
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 19.
“Some people's faults are becoming to them; others are disgraced by their own good traits.”
François de La Rochefoucauld book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
Il y a des personnes à qui les défauts siéent bien, et d'autres qui sont disgraciées avec leurs bonnes qualités.
Maxim 251.
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Arthur C. Brooks (1964) American policy analyst and musician
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“Never find fault with the absent.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) eighteenth century English poet
Absenti nemo non nocuisse velit.
Sextus Propertius, Elegies, II, xix, 32, also translated: "Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent".
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“Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain”
Henry Ford (1863–1947) American industrialist
Vinod Rai (1948) Comptroller and Auditor General of India
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“I criticize by creation, not by finding fault.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
Frank Chodorov (1887–1966) American libertarian thinker
Source: One is A Crowd: Reflections of An Individualist (1952), p. 34