Use makes perfection. [ Proverb ]

The very pink of perfection. [ Goldsmith ]

All perfection is melancholy. [ Mrs. Oliphant ]

Even women are perfect at the outset. [ Rochefoucauld ]

I have seen an end of all perfection. [ Bible ]

Friendship is the perfection of love. [ Proverb ]

God never made His work for man to mend. [ Dryden ]

Woman is most perfect when most womanly. [ Gladstone ]

The perfection of art is to conceal art. [ Quintilian ]

Wisdom in perfection is not for mortals. [ Proverb ]

Earth's noblest thing - a woman perfected. [ Lowell ]

In this broad earth of ours,
Amid the measureless grossness and the slag,
Enclosed and safe within its central heart,
Nestles the seed perfection. [ Walt Whitman ]

Heaven, the perfection of all that can
Be said, of thought, riches, delight or harmony.
Health, beauty; and all those not subject to
The waste of time, but in their height eternal. [ Shirley ]

God's will is the very perfection of all reason. [ Edward Payson ]

There are many lovely women, but no perfect ones. [ Victor Hugo ]

What's come to perfection perishes,
Things learned on earth we shall practise in heaven;
Works done least rapidly Art most cherishes. [ Robert Browning ]

Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle. [ Michael Angelo ]

It is easier to avoid a fault than acquire perfection. [ Proverb ]

Friendship is the highest degree of perfection in society. [ Montaigne ]

Perfecting is our destiny, but perfection is never our lot. [ J. C. Weber ]

Happiness is no other than soundness and perfection of mind. [ Antoninus ]

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. [ Michael Angelo ]

That charity which is the perfection and ornament of religion. [ Addison ]

Were she perfect, one would admire her more, but love her less. [ Grattan ]

Ideal excellence, or one's conception of perfection in anything. [ French ]

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; she requires the hand of time. [ Voltaire ]

Simplicity, without which no human performance can arrive at perfection. [ Swift ]

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius. [ Carlyle ]

Perfection is not the affair of the scholar; it is enough if he practises. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

There are no perfect women in the world; only hypocrites exhibit no defects. [ Ninon de Lenclos ]

Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more. [ Tennyson ]

We can fix our eyes on perfection, and make almost everything speed towards it. [ Channing ]

Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought. [ Dryden ]

It is the witness still of excellency to put a strange face on his own perfection. [ William Shakespeare ]

Abstaining so as really to enjoy, is the epicurism, the very perfection, of reason. [ Rousseau ]

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. [ La Bruyère ]

Our follies and errors are the soiled steps to the Grecian temple of our perfection. [ Richter ]

Thou hast no faults, or I no faults can spy; Thou art all beauty, or all blindness I. [ Christopher Codrington ]

True virtue, being united to heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection. [ Milton ]

Whoever thinks a perfect work to see, thinks what never was, nor is, nor ever shall be. [ Pope ]

Never get a reputation for a small perfection if you are trying for fame in a loftier area. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

The maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it's unattainable, all the same. [ Bayard Taylor ]

God has set the type of marriage through creation. Each creature seeks its perfection in another. [ Luther ]

Let no man measure by a scale of perfection the meager product of reality in this poor world of ours. [ Schiller ]

The divine nature is perfection; and to be nearest to the divine nature is to be nearest to perfection. [ Xenophon ]

If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself. [ H. W. Shaw ]

The extension and perfection of friendship will constitute a great part of the future happiness of the blest. [ R. Whately ]

It is no great advantage to possess a quick wit, if it is not correct; the perfection is not speed, but uniformity. [ Vauvenargues ]

The perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervor of genius. [ Leigh Hunt ]

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye, that we may always advance towards it. though we know it can never be reached. [ Dr. Johnson ]

No good work whatever can be perfect; and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art. [ John Ruskin ]

Not in the knowledge of things without, but in the perfection of the soul within, lies the empire of man aspiring to be more than man. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]

He that claims, either in himself or for another, the honours of perfection will surely injure the reputation which he designs to assist. [ Johnson ]

The perfection of conversation is not to play a regular sonata, but, like the Aeolian harp, to await the inspiration of the passing breeze. [ Burke ]

Perfection does not exist. To understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; to desire to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness. [ Alfred de Musset ]

Those who, from the desire of our perfection, have the keenest eye for our faults generally compensate for it by taking a higher view of our merits than we deserve. [ J. F. Boyes ]

A wise man will always be a Christian, because the perfection of wisdom is to know where lies tranquillity of mind and how to attain it, which Christianity teaches. [ Landor ]

The imputation of being a fool is a thing which mankind, of all others, is the most impatient of, it being a blot upon the prime and specific perfection of human nature. [ South ]

Few of us appreciate the number of our everyday blessings; we think they are trifles, and yet trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle, as Michael Angelo said. [ Sir John Lubbock ]

Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to our moral nature in its purity and perfection. [ Ruskin ]

Eternal life does not depend upon our perfection; but because it does depend upon the grace of Christ and the love of the Spirit, that love shall prompt us to emulate perfection. [ William Adams ]

Have something to tell, and tell it clearly, simply, without a trace of affectation or conscious effort at fine writing. I should advise the study of examples in this perfection of art. [ E P. Roe, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]

He who excels in his art so as to carry it to the utmost height of perfection of which it is capable may be said in some measure to go beyond it: his transcendent productions admit of no appellations. [ La Bruyere ]

The stoical exemption which philosophy affects to give us over the pains and vexations of human life is as imaginary as the state of mystical quietism and perfection aimed at by some crazy enthusiast. [ Scott ]

The nightingale, if she should sing by day, when every goose is cackling, would be thought no better a musician than the wren. How many things by season seasoned are to their right praise and true perfection! [ Shakespeare ]

To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct, either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of the other. [ Diogenes ]

Humour has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius. He who wants it, be his other gifts what they may, has only half a mind; an eye for what is above him, not for what is about him or below him. [ Carlyle ]

The last, best fruit which comes to late perfection, even in the kindliest soul, is tenderness toward the hard, forbearance toward the unforbearing, warmth of heart toward the cold, and philanthropy toward the misanthropic. [ Jean Paul ]

In art there is a point of perfection, as of goodness or maturity in nature; he who is able to perceive it, and who loves it, has perfect taste; he who does not feel it, or loves on this side or that, has an imperfect taste. [ Bruyere ]

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable; however, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable. [ Chesterfield ]

To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, to throw a perfume on the violet, to smooth the ice, or add another hue unto the rainbow, or with taper-light to seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, is wasteful and ridiculous excess. [ William Shakespeare ]

He who boasts of being perfect is perfect in folly. I never saw a perfect man. Every rose has its thorns, and every day its night. Even the sun shows spots, and the skies are darkened with clouds; and faults of some kind nestle in every bosom. [ Spurgeon ]

Perhaps that is nearly the perfection of good writing which is original, but whose truth alone prevents the reader from suspecting that it is so; and which effects that for knowledge which the lens effects for the sunbeam, when it condenses its brightness in order to increase its force. [ Colton ]

Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his providence. Art is the perfection of nature. Were the world now as it was the sixth day, there were yet a chaos. Nature hath made one world, and art another. In brief, all things are artificial; for nature is the art of God. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]

Beauty of form affects the mind, but then it must be understood that it is not the mere shell that we admire; we are attracted by the idea that this shell is only a beautiful case adjusted to the shape and value of a still more beautiful pearl within. The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering. [ Jane Porter ]

We are foolish, and without excuse foolish, in speaking of the superiority of one sex to the other, as if they could be compared in similar things! Each has what the other has not; each completes the other; they are in nothing alike; and the happiness and perfection of both depend on each asking and receiving from the other what the other only can give. [ Ruskin ]

The perfection of an art consists in the employment of a comprehensive system of laws, commensurate to every purpose within its scope, but concealed from the eye of the spectator; and in the production of effects that seem to flow forth spontaneously, as though uncontrolled by their influence, and which are equally excellent, whether regarded individually, or in reference to the proposed result, [ John Mason Good ]