Helps Achieve Perfection

Famous quotes containing the words helps, achieve and/or perfection:

    “What helps it now, that Byron bore,
    With haughty scorn which mock’d the smart,
    Through Europe to the Aetolian shore
    The pageant of his bleeding heart?
    That thousands counted every groan,
    And Europe made his woe her own?”
    —Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)

    “My object all sublime
    I shall achieve in time—
    To let the punishment fit the crime—
    The punishment fit the crime;”
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

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