A Quote by Walter Savage Landor

Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for.

Walter Savage Landor

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Faults Find Great Great Men Greater Little Men Often Room Than Too

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Walter Savage Landor
English - Poet
January 30, 1775 - September 17, 1864

There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and it needs --apart from discernment --a certain greatness to find him.

Margot Asquith

Great men too make mistakes, and many among them do it so often that one is almost tempted to call them little men.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Women have many faults, but the worst of them all is that they are too pleased with themselves and take too little pains to please the men.

Plautus

Men who watch, and say little, very often are much wiser than the men they serve.

Susanna Kearsley

Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.

Khalil Gibran

The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.

Henry Fielding

...I was tired of men. Hanging in doorways, standing too close, their smell of beer or fifteen-year-old whiskey. Men who didn't come to the emergency room with you, men who left on Christmas Eve. Men who slammed the security gates, who made you love them and then changed their minds.

Janet Fitch

Orthodox Christians have the habit of claiming all great men, all men who have held important positions, men of reputation, men of wealth. As soon as the funeral is over clergymen begin to relate imaginary conversations with the deceased, and in a very little while the great man is changed to a Christian - possibly to a saint.

Robert Green Ingersoll

There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.

Samuel Richardson

Men demonstrate their courage far more often in little things than in great.

Baldassare Castiglione

Women on the whole are often not as shallow as men are. They can be, but they cut through things a little more easily than men do in terms of that superficial stuff.

Peter Dinklage

Daily the Negro is coming more and more to look upon law and justice, not as protecting safeguards, but as sources of humiliation and oppression. The laws are made by men who have little interest in him; they are executed by men who have absolutely no motive for treating the black people with courtesy or consideration; and, finally, the accused law-breaker is tried, not by his peers, but too often by men who would rather punish ten innocent Negroes than let one guilty one escape.

W. E. B. Du Bois

Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.

Henry Fielding

Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths.