Perfection

Famous quotes containing the word perfection:

““The work is done,” grown old he thought,
“According to my boyish plan;
Let the fools rage, I swerved in nought,
Something to perfection brought;”
But louder sang that ghost “What then?””
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

““Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it,” said the Philosopher.”
—James Kenneth Stephens (1882–1950)

“Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.”
—Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)