#Perfection Quotes

“Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear.”

“Take pains. Be perfect.”

“It is the witness still of excellency to put a strange face on his own perfection.”

“Of all complexions the culled sovereignty Do meet, as at a fair, in her fair cheek, Where several worthies make one dignity, Where nothing wants that want itself doth seek.”

“One woman is fair, yet I am well; another is wise, yet I am well; another virtuous, yet I am well; but till all graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace.”

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

“Accuracy is essential to beauty.”

“How many things by season seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection!”

“In Nature, all is useful, all is beautiful”

“When you do dance, I wish you a wave o' the sea, that you might ever do nothing but that.”

“The rule for hospitality and Irish "help," is, to have the same dinner every day throughout the year. At last, Mrs. O'Shaughnessylearns to cook it to a nicety, the host learns to carve it, and the guests are well served.”

“Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches.”

“The most peerless piece of earth, I think, that e' er the sun shone bright on.”

“O heaven! were man, But constant, he were perfect.”

“Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and whiteNature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on.”

“Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection.”

“When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.”

“The way to achieve happiness is to try for perfection that is impossible to achieve, and spend the rest of your life trying to achieve it.”

“See the genius in everyone you encounter. Just as the mountain cannot crack a nut though it can carry a forest on its back, so too does every living creature have its own perfection built into it.”

“Every thing that grows / Holds in perfection but a little moment.”

“Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.”

“They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.”

“Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.”

“Nothing is perfect on the human stage.”

“With all the imperfections of our present government, it is without comparison the best existing, or that ever did exist.”

“We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.”

“If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be.”

“I wish everybody had the drive he (Joe DiMaggio) had. He never did anything wrong on the field. I'd never seen him dive for a ball, everything was a chest-high catch, and he never walked off the field.”

“What is your substance, whereof are you made, That millions of strange shadows on you tend? Since everyone hath every one, one shade, And you, but one, can every shadow lend. Describe Adonis, and the counterfeit Is poorly imitated after you. On Helen’s cheek all art of beauty set, And you in Grecian tires are painted new. Speak of the spring and foison of the year; The one doth shadow of your beauty show, The other as your bounty doth appear, And you in every blessèd shape we know. In all external grace you have some part, But you like none, none you, for constant heart.”

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

“No man, even though he be Shakespeare, can write perfectly when his web is woven of threads that have been spun in many lands.”

“Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.”

“It's certain there is no fine thing Since Adam's fall but needs much laboring.”

“All art is in the last analysis an endeavor to condense as out of the flying vapor of the world an image of human perfection, and for its own and not for the art's sake.”

“Creativity is often blocked by trying to be perfect. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”

“Necessity does everything well.”

“Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house, and speaks the best part of the oration.”

“The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life, or of the work And if it take the second must refuse A heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.”

“A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstitching has been naught.”

“There was never any more inception than there is now,Nor any more youth or age than there is now;And will never be any more perfection than there is now,Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now.”

“There will never be any more perfection than there is now.”

“I will grow. I will become something new and grand, but no grander than I now am. Just as the sky will be different in a few hours, its present perfection and completeness is not deficient, so am I presently perfect and not deficient. I will be different tomorrow. I will grow and I am not deficient.”

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

“All the months are crude experiments,out of which the perfect September is made.”

“Beauty through my senses stole;I yielded myself to the perfect whole.”

“Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.”

“Echo waits with art and care And will the faults of song repair.”

“To speak in literature with the perfect rectitude and insouciance of the movements of animals and the unimpeachable of the sentiment of trees in the woods and grass by the roadside is the flawless triumph of art.”

“In this broad earth of ours, Amid the measureless grossness and the slag, Enclosed and safe within its central heart, Nestles the seed of perfection.”

“And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present, and can be none in the future, And I will show that whatever happens to anybody it may be turned to beautiful results.”