Perfection

(472 votes)   The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(349 votes)   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
1900-1944, French Aviator, Writer

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(268 votes)   The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.

Henri Frederic Amiel
1821-1881, Swiss Philosopher, Poet, Critic

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(248 votes)   Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Angelique Arnauld

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(247 votes)   Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more.

Lord Alfred Tennyson
1809-1892, British Poet

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(162 votes)   Be ye therefore perfect, eve as your Father who is in heaven is perfect.

Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

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(157 votes)   The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection --even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano --is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.

Logan Pearsall Smith
1865-1946, Anglo-American Essayist, Aphorist

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

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(141 votes)   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
1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright

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

W. Somerset Maugham
1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright

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(132 votes)   I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.

Henry Ward Beecher
1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer

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(126 votes)   Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solitude is the enemy of well-being.

John Updike
1932-, American Novelist, Critic

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(126 votes)   Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(126 votes)   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.

William Butler Yeats
1865-1939, Irish Poet, Playwright.

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(124 votes)   No barber shaves so close but another finds his work.

English Proverbs
Sayings of British Origin

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