Perfection Quotes

The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. Once for all; I love her none the less because I knew it, and it had no more influence in restraining me, than if I had devoutly believed her to be human perfection.

Charles Dickens

It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.

Lord Melbourne

Both men and women are fallible. The difference is, women know it.

Eleanor Bron

In anything at all, perfection is finally attained, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away.

Antoine De SaintExupery, Wind, S

Have no fear of perfection-you'll never reach it.

Salvador Dali

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

Joseph Addison

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

Saint Augustine of Hippo

Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill.

Doug Horton

American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.

W. Somerset Maugham

Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers.

W. Somerset Maugham

Perfection has one grave defect. It is apt to be dull.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solitude is the enemy of well-being.

John Updike

I look at Liv Tyler and think It's not fair, because I can't find a flaw on her. And on top of that she seems nice, so it's really not fair.

Tori Spelling

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.

George Bernard Shaw

Be ye therefore perfect, eve as your Father who is in heaven is perfect.

Bible

Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Angelique Arnauld

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.

Jerome K. Jerome

Perfecting is our destiny, but perfection never our lot.

C. J. Weber