Perfection Quotes

Faultless to a fault.

Robert Browning

Perfection is the child of time.

Bishop Joseph Hall

You would attain to the divine perfection, and yet not turn your back upon the world.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.

W. Somerset Maugham

The most vigilant self-criticism of course is necessary, but the time comes when the artist must tell himself he is good or he will go under.

Gerald Moor

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

George Orwell

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

Edgar Allan Poe

Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.

Antoine de Saint - Exupery

How many things by season seasoned are to their right praise and true perfection!

William Shakespeare

Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.

William Shakespeare

It is through Art, and through Art only, that we can realise our perfection.

Oscar Wilde