Perfection

Famous quotes containing the word perfection:

“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)

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

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