Perfection

Famous quotes containing the word perfection:

“The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

“Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian—ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.”
—Lytton Strachey (1880–1932)

“Swans in the winter air
A white perfection have,”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)