#Imperfection Quotes

“Friendship is full of dregs.”

“Best men oft are moulded out of faults.”

“Truly thou art damned, like an ill-roasted egg, all on one side.”

“To be in anger is impiety, but who is man that is not angry?”

“But no perfection is so absolute, That some impurity doth not pollute.”

“I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.”

“Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.”

“The finest wits have their sediment.”

“But men are men; the best sometimes forget.”

“Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts.”

“No reckoning made, but sent to my account with all my imperfections on my head.”

“If you are looking for a friend who is faultless, you will be friendless.”

“Do what we can, summer will have its flies.”

“Nature hath meal and bran, contempt and grace.”

“We live in a system of approximations. Every end is prospective of some other end, which is also temporary; a round and final success nowhere. We are encamped in nature, not domesticated.”

“When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope that, in the course of a few years, we shall have condensed into our encyclopaedia the net value of all the theories at which the world has yet arrived. But year after year our tables get no completeness, and at last we discover that our curve is a parabola, whose arcs will never meet.”

“Men are stupid. That much I know for sure. They say stupid things. They do stupid things. They hurt you for stupid reasons. But we love them all the same. My fiancee can be as stupid as can be at times, but then again so can I. We all can. Lets face it, life and love would be boring if we were all straight laced and smart.”

“And in some perfumes there is more delight than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know that music hath a far more pleasing sound.”

“Nothing is perfect on the human stage.”

“The world, nature, human beings, do not move like machines. The edges are never clear-cut, but always frayed. Nature never draws a line without smudging it.”

“I have too many flaws to be perfect. But i have too many blessings to be ungrateful.”

“For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word, a verse, and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem.”

“There is no deformity But saves us from a dream.”

“Perfect solutions of our difficulties are not to be looked for in an imperfect world.”

“Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.”

“Full many a lady I have eyed with best regard, and many a time Th' harmony of their tongues hath into bondage Brought my too diligent ear; for several virtues Have I liked several women; never any With so full soul but some defect in her Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed, And put it to the foil.”

“I don't know that I could draw one that's perfect. But I'd rather by approximately right than precisely wrong, and it would be precisely wrong to turn it down.”

“Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.”

“But the people are ungrammatical, untidy, and their sins gaunt and ill-bred.”

“For it is a curious fact that though human beings have such imperfect means of communication, that they can only say 'good to eat' when they mean 'beautiful' and the other way about, they will yet endure ridicule and misunderstanding rather than keep any experience to themselves.”

“There's no perfect coach in the world. Coaches are human, too. Mistakes are made. But, fundamentally, if you're sound, you eliminate as many mistakes as possible.”

“We all make mistakes. If you can't make mistakes, you can't make decisions. I've made a lot bigger mistakes myself.”

“There are many lovely women, but no perfect ones.”

“Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I can bear it.”

“It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human apparatus for painting or for feeling; it always broke down at the critical moment; heroically, one must force it on.”

“I attain a different kind of beauty, achieve a symmetry by means of infinite discords, showing all the traces of the mind's passage through the world, achieve in the end some kind of whole made of shivering fragments.”

“But beauty must be broken daily to remain beautiful.”

“There is a way of meeting error while on the road of truth.”

“There's room for role models who make mistakes.”

“We are not loved by our friends for what we are; rather, we are loved in spite of what we are.”

“We must reconcile ourselves to a season of failures and fragments.”

“Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.”

“I think the perfection of love is that it's not perfect.”

“He is lifeless that is faultless.”

“Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.”

“I was raised in this society so you can't expect me to be a perferct person cause Ima do what Ima do.”

“So long as there is desire or want, it is a sure sign that there is imperfection. A perfect, free being cannot have any desire.”

“Never forget that a man is made great and perfect as much by his faults as by his virtues. So we must not seek to rob a nation of its character, even if it could be proved that the character was all faults.”

“Love has absolutely no pattern, and no one will ever be perfect.”

“I'm not perfect. But I'll always be real”