Chapter FATHER to FAULTS of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

FATHER to FAULTS

FATHER.—It is a wise father that knows his own child.

Shakespeare.—Merchant of Venice, Act II. Scene 2. (Launcelot.)

No one ever knew his own father.

Buckley’s Homer. The Odyssey, Book I. Page 8. 1. Art thou his father? 2. Ay, sir; so his mother says, if I may believe her.

Shakespeare.—Taming of the Shrew, Act V. Scene 1. (Vicentio and Petruchio.)

My father,—Methinks, I see my father.

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act I. Scene 2. (To Horatio.)

I know you are a faithful servant, Mr. Smith, I know you are, —but you—you are not a father!

Holcroft.—The Road to Ruin, Act I. Scene 1. 1. I’ll never speak to you more. 2. Bid me good-night, sir. Mr. Sulky here will bid me good-night, and you are my father!

Holcroft.—The Road to Ruin, Act I. Scene 1.

Oh, who would be a father!

Holcroft.—The Road to Ruin, Act V. Scene 2; Shakespeare.—Othello, Act I. Scene 1.

Oh, who would not be a father!

Holcroft.—The Road to Ruin, Act V. Scene 2.

FAULTS.—You shall find there
A man who is the abstract of all faults
That all men follow.

Shakespeare.—Anthony and Cleopatra, Act I. Scene 4. (Cæsar to Lepidus.)

Men have many faults;
Poor women have but two:
There’s nothing good they say,
And nothing right they do.

Anonymous.

Why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

St. Luke.—Chap. VI. Verse 41.

The faults of our neighbours with freedom we blame,
But tax not ourselves, though we practise the same.

Cunningham.—The Fox, the Cat, and the Spider; and Cibber.—The Refusal, Act III. Gay.—The Turkey and Ant, Part I. Fable XXXVIII. Line 1.

Other men’s sins we ever bear in mind;
None sees the fardel of his faults behind.

Herrick.—Hesperides, Aphorisms, No. 182.

Every man has a bag hanging before him, in which he puts his neighbours’ faults, and another behind him in which he stows his own.

Knight’s Shakespeare.—Coriolanus, Act II. Scene 1. In Notis.