Perfection

Famous quotes containing the word perfection:

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

“The man who, from the beginning of his life, has been bathed at length in the soft atmosphere of a woman, in the smell of her hands, of her bosom, of her knees, of her hair, of her supple and floating clothes, ... has contracted from this contact a tender skin and a distinct accent, a kind of androgyny without which the harshest and most masculine genius remains, as far as perfection in art is concerned, an incomplete being.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)

“There is a certain perfection in accident which we never consciously attain.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)