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.
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill. But he has one defect: He can think.
Bertolt Brecht
22.
By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
23.
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
24.
Absence of defects does not necessarily build business... Something more is required.
W. Edwards Deming
25.
I have a personality defect where I refuse to see myself as an underdog.
Mindy Kaling
29.
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.
What one discovers in life, I find, is that one's personality defects don't come and go.
Lynne Truss
32.
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
33.
I have all the defects of other people yet everything they do seems to me inconceivable.
Emile M. Cioran
34.
Talent is often a defect in character.
Karl Kraus
35.
The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance.
Henry David Thoreau
37.
Each one projects his own defects over the others, each one see in other his own defects.
Samael Aun Weor
38.
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.
In our plain defects we already know the brotherhood of man.
Christopher Fry
44.
There is hardly any personal defect... which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.
Jane Austen
45.
Women are as they are;
they necessarily have the defects of their virtues.
Honore de Balzac
46.
We believe that the defects of so many perverse and so many frivolous people, who make up society, are organic, and society is a hospital of incurables.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
47.
Without humility,
we keep all our defects;
and they are only crusted over by pride,
which conceals them from others,
and often from ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
49.
Fools are apt to imitate only the defects of their betters.
Jonathan Swift
50.
And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is willfully to misunderstand them.
Jane Austen