The source of every crime, is some defect of the understanding; or some error in reasoning; or some sudden force of the passions. Defect in the understanding is ignorance; in reasoning, erroneous opinion.”
Perfection has one grave defect. It is apt to be dull.
Use your faults, use your defects; then you're going to be a star.
My chief virtue (or if you like, defect) has been a tireless lifelong search for an original, individual musical idiom. I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.
The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.