It was not edifying to dwell on the failings of others.
I was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It's a common failing.
Every failure was a stepping stone towards a greater success.
The cracks in old friendships are measured in awkward pauses.
The question must be asked: have we been the beneficiaries or the victims of our education?
At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.
She takes after Laura in that respect: the same tendency towards absolutism, the same refusal to compromise, the same scorn for the grosser human failings. To get away with that, you have to be beauti...
We must love those with whom we live and work, and love them for all their failings, manifest and manifold though they be.
Undisclosed failings, she thought; that great weight we all carry around with us, some of us for all our lives, unable to speak about them, unable -- involuntary Atlases all -- to share the burden.