Point Defects

Famous quotes containing the words point and/or defects:

    I would rather produce my passions than brood over them at my expense; they grow languid when they have vent and expression. It is better that their point should operate outwardly than be turned against us.
    Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

    We often make use of envenomed praise, that reveals on the rebound, as it were, defects in those praised which we dare not expose any other way.
    François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)