Perfection

Famous quotes containing the word perfection:

“It is nor hand, nor foot,
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other word would smell as sweet;
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo called,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name,
And for thy name, which is no part of thee,
Take all myself.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Things out of perfection sail
And all their swelling canvas wear....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“I would with such perfection govern, sir,
T’excel the golden age.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)