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Perfection Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
- You Europeans know nothing about America. Because we amass large fortunes you think we care for nothing but money. We are nothing for it; the…
- 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.
- It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.
- Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.
- Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
- The Americans, who are the most efficient people on the earth, have carried [phrase-making] to such a height of perfection and have invented so wide…
- I happen to think we’ve set our ideal on the wrong objects; I happen to think that the greatest ideal man can set before himself…
- Refecting on the high divorce rate in America as contrasted with England "American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women…
- The ballet. I saw in the fugitive beauty of a dancer's gesture a symbol of life. It was achieved at the cost of unending effort…
More Perfection Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word. — Margaret Atwood
- Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing. — Kevyn Aucoin
- This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections. — Saint Augustine
- Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection. — Richard Bach
- I'm a perfectionist. Sometimes I have to remind myself that it's okay if there are flaws here and there. — Tyra Banks
- It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become… — Joseph Addison
- Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into. — Henry Ward Beecher
- I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order… — Henry Ward Beecher
- The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection. — Jeremy Bentham