Reverse Fault

Famous quotes containing the words reverse and/or fault:

“We came home from the ridotto so late, or rather so early, that it was not possible for me to write. Indeed we did not go ... till past eleven o’clock: but nobody does. A terrible reverse of the order of nature! We sleep with the sun, and wake with the moon.”
—Frances Burney (1752–1840)

“This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist.”
—Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65–8 B.C.)