Samuel Johnson Faults Quotations

Shakespeare never had more than 6 lines together without a fault.

men do not suspect faults which they do not commit

Faults and defects every work of man must have.

Tediousness is the most fatal of all faults.

Censure is willingly indulged, because it always implies some superiority: men please themselves with imagining that they have made a deeper search, or wider survey than others, and detected faults and follies which escape vulgar observation.

The faults of a writer of acknowledged excellence are more dangerous, because the influence of his example is more extensive; and the interest of learning requires that they should be discovered and stigmatized, before they have the sanction of antiquity conferred upon them, and become precedents of indisputable authority.

Every man has something to do which he neglects, every man has faults to conquer which he delays to combat.