Top 1200 Tragic Flaw Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Being stubborn is a virtue when you're right; it's only a character flaw when you're wrong.

I guess that's a flaw in my career, that I like to work too much.

Who wants to be a goddess when we can be human? Perfection is a flaw disguised as control.

Every flaw, scar, or mark you may have adds to your beauty.

Mr. Agnew, I believe you have a slight swing in your flaw.

I became a better pitcher when I found a delivery in my flaw.

Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.

All creatures are flawed, but out of the flaw may come the universe.

What was venerated as style was nothing more than an imperfection or flaw that revealed the guilty hand.

Flowers are almost perfect; their only flaw is that they are weak; they can't protect themselves against the evil!

Crippled things are always more beautiful. It's the flaw that brings out beauty.

If a fish is born in your aquarium and you call him John, write out a birth certificate, tell him about his family history, and in two minutes he gets eaten by another fish - that's tragic. But it's only tragic because you projected a separate self where there was none. You got hold of a fraction of dynamic process, a molecular dance, and a separate entity out of it.

I think my biggest flaw is my insecurity. I'm terribly insecure. I'm plagued with insecurities 24/7.

Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.

I don't listen to my songs. The only time I do it is when someone points out a flaw in the end product.

Perfection is what we create in our own mind. I prefer the flaw.

Flaw is just a negative word for what might be something that makes you unique or interesting.

Humans are suspicious and jealous creatures. When they see something perfect, they want to find a flaw.

He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.

There's nothing in the American dream about character. It's a serious flaw.

Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine.

There is a fundamental flaw in interpretations of sharia that say a woman or man should be punished for sex outside of marriage.

The one [The Beverly Hillbillies] flaw in this is that you can't hear the people laughing.

Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.

The flaw of an amateur is to assume what's in our head is what's on the page.

True love, like the eye, can bear no flaw.

This thing about you that you think is your flaw - it's the reason I'm falling in love with you.

A woman's character is as delicate as her eye; it can bear no flaw.

My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else's.

I inherited that penchant for intellectualism, a character flaw that these days can only be thoroughly eradicated by getting Z’ed up.

I just want everyone to like me. That's my main flaw.

The worst thing you can do is find your flaw and continually highlight it.

A flaw is really beauty owned by nobody else. I think everyone is beautiful.

The teenage pregnancy is such a tragic thing. It is such a sad and tragic thing because the children who have children do it because they think they are going to be loved. They are going to be loved, but they have to give love to be loved otherwise the child becomes depressed. Isolated and depressed. In other words apathetic.

My most serious character flaw is that I don't deny myself much.

There's no doubt that when it comes to our treatment of Native Americans as well as other persons of color in this country, we've got some very sad and difficult things to account for. I personally would want to see our tragic history, or the tragic elements of our history, acknowledged. I consistently believe that when it comes to whether it's Native Americans or African-American issues or reparations, the most important thing for the U.S. government to do is not just offer words, but offer deeds.

The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.

My job is to show my clients that their anger is rarely someone else's fault. It's their flaw.

If Trump was just a piddly-ass little hotel owner some place, having the kind of character and manners that he has, he would not be worth our notice. But because he's now been based to this huge stage, then his dimensions become immense. He's not a tragic figure because he doesn't have the capacity to be tragic. But the consequences of his life and his self now are immense; they're threatening to the world and to the sanctity of human life.

How come princesses always have some huge flaw that can cause their downfall?

The best and most innovative products don't always win...(it's an) aesthetic flaw in how the universe worked

I had inherited what my father called the art of the advocate, or the irritating habit of looking for the flaw in any argument.

We only see female protagonists who are likeable, with one cute flaw, such as adorable clumsiness. I'm fed up with it.

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

My love to thee is sound, sans crack or flaw.

The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is.

You see someone on the street, and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.

In an era of instant communication, a flaw or non-perfect product creates immediate bad buzz.

A hard core life I toast to ex flaw, therefore I live raw and went to war wit the law.

There is no worse flaw in man's character than that of wanting to belong.

We are not perfect. None of us is. I apologize for that flaw. I thank the governor for giving me a job with a driver.

That's another flaw with performance-based rewards: They are easy for one of your competitors to top.

Pussy really is the ultimate motivator of all mankind. No, don't clap, this is a flaw in the system!

I suffer from a genetic flaw, which is that my mother was a hopeless Pollyanna.

While clearly an impregnable masterpiece, Don Quixote suffers from one fairly serious flaw--that of outright unreadability.

Artists know failure. It is not tragic that they know failure; it is only tragic if they know failure and little else.

I regard gratitude as an asset and its absence a major interpersonal flaw.

People say that forgiving is my flaw, but I really believe that holding grudges and anger is a waste of energy.

The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty - we all have it.

The flaw in the pluralist heaven is that the heavenly chorus sings with a strong upper-class accent.