Yogi Berra: What is the trait you most deplore in others?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

A verbatim standing question in The Guardian's rotating Q&A questionnaire, documented across respondents and years.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Yogi Berra said elsewhere, not written here

Talking too much.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2010 source ↗

Others on this question

Fay Ripley English actress, television presenter, cookbook author

Being judgmental – how dare they!

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 November 2022 source ↗

Alice Waters Chef, restaurateur and food activist

A lack of generosity. It can take so many forms—it doesn’t just have to do with money—so I’m always shocked when people can’t muster any at all.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2021 source ↗

Lolita Chakrabarti British actress and writer

Lack of empathy.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 May 2022 source ↗

Not having the ability to say sorry when they’re wrong.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 July 2026 source ↗

I’m very happy about it. You know, a kid from the Hill being elected to the Hall of Fame. Proud of it.

Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, New York City, 1 June 2005 source ↗

To relax without being bothered.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 April 2010 source ↗

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