Foible Quotes

“Driving like a man is one of her few foibles.”

“Zookeeper foible #1: Tendency to not equate fur and scale with fracture and scar.”

“I don't think it is as much a human foible as it is a human curse that we cannot understand the beauty of a thing until it is gone.”

“Like Aurelia, he is a lover of humanity in all its quirks and foibles, quick to delight and slow to judge.”

“In romance, we feel the need to zoom in and expound on our partner's foibles in intimate detail; in friendship, we tend to do the opposite, avoiding confrontation through fear, lethargy or both.”

“We pay a heavy, very heavy price for the superhuman dignity of our calling. The ridiculous is always so near to the sublime. And the world, usually so indulgent to foibles, hates ours instinctively.”

“The comic novels I did when I was in my 20s had a harder edge - less sympathy for people. Or a sympathy that was harder to detect: Characters' foibles and obsessive bents were unrelenting, like caricatures.”

“Books; I repeat, for they've not only been a solace during the long years but also provided the keys to understanding other people's ideas and achievements, their hopes and fears, quirks and foibles, their dreams.....their demons”

“I’m interested in this humbler approach, one that is more accepting of human foibles, and indeed sees dignity and peace as emerging more from that acceptance than from any method of transcending the human condition.”