What is defect?

Famous quotes containing the word defect:

    “Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be “too clever by half.” The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.”
    —John Major (b. 1943)

    “Treat unhappiness as a defect and fewer would embrace it.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “A weak mind is the only defect out of our power to mend.”
    —François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)