1.
If you have so many defects, why are you surprised to find defects in others?
Josemaria Escriva
2.
In a true zero-defects approach, there are no unimportant items.
Phil Crosby
3.
If we deliver on time, but the product has defects, we have not delivered on time.
Phil Crosby
4.
Defects are not free. Somebody makes them, and gets paid for making them.
W. Edwards Deming
6.
Whoever recounts to you the faults of your neighbour will doubtless expose your defects to others.
Saadi
7.
If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.
Robert Lowell
8.
The defect of equality is that we desire it only with our superiors.
Henry Becque
9.
I am there where it is spoken that the universe is a defect in the purity of non-being.
Jacques Lacan
10.
An object is frequently not seen, from not knowing how to see it, rather than from any defect of the organ of vision.
Charles Babbage
11.
I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.
John Calvin
12.
It is human defect — to try to know oneself by the self of another.
Robert Penn Warren
13.
Indeed envy is a defect; worse than any other.
Rumi
14.
If you don't know what the defect level is, how do you know when to get mad?
Phil Crosby
16.
For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect.
Mason Cooley
17.
It is a defect of God's humor that he directs our hearts everywhere but to those who have a right to them.
Tom Stoppard
18.
One of these grand defects, as I humbly conceive, is this, that children are habituated to learning without understanding.
Jonathan Edwards
20.
If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.
Francois Fenelon
21.
By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
22.
The Constitution admittedly has a few defects and blemishes, but it still seems a hell of a lot better than the system we have now.
Robert Anton Wilson
23.
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
Bertolt Brecht
24.
I have a personality defect where I refuse to see myself as an underdog.
Mindy Kaling
25.
Absence of defects does not necessarily build business... Something more is required.
W. Edwards Deming
28.
There are sometimes beauties in a character which would never have appeared but for a defect, and defects which would never have appeared but for a beauty.
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
30.
I see only defects because I'm not following the scene as it were. I'm not following the other person. It's like the best thing to clarify this is the theater.
Omar Sharif
31.
I have all the defects of other people yet everything they do seems to me inconceivable.
Emile M. Cioran
32.
Talent is often a defect in character.
Karl Kraus
33.
The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance.
Henry David Thoreau
35.
Each one projects his own defects over the others, each one see in other his own defects.
Samael Aun Weor
36.
What one discovers in life, I find, is that one's personality defects don't come and go.
Lynne Truss
40.
For a French person, lack of desire in someone is really seen as a defect.
Marilyn Yalom
41.
To be perfect, one lacks only a defect.
Karl Kraus
43.
[On golf:] One of the most distressing defects of civilization.
Winifred Holtby
44.
You marry the day you realize the human defects of your love.
Anais Nin
45.
With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the USA and China.
Umberto Eco
46.
Every human perfection is allied to a defect into which it threatens to pass, but it is also true that every defect is allied to a perfection.
Arthur Schopenhauer
48.
No matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don't see what we could be.
Mitch Albom
49.
All authors to their own defects are blind.
John Dryden
50.
In our plain defects we already know the brotherhood of man.
Christopher Fry