Quotes About Perfection

Beauty that steals the heart is often imperfect, suggests grace and kindness, and inspires tenderness more than it incites lust.

I wish I could convey the perfection... But language founders in such seas

Por qué iba a someterse Dios a algo así? ¿Por qué no dejar la muerte para los mortales? ¿Por qué tuvo que ensuciar lo que era bello, estropear la perfección? -Por amor...

Girls either wanted him or wanted to improve him, but most often a combination of the two. They wanted to improve him until he justified the amount they wanted him.

For he is in a past-tense, future-perfect kind of mood.

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love." —Tom Robbins

Art is never finished. It is only abandoned.

No woman was good enough for me, according to my mother.

Everything I do, I want it to be perfect. I know it can't be like that every time - but that is my aim.

I don't want to put out a CD of album songs. I'm gunning for every song to be a single.

Now, I love movies so much, but I find a lot of movies to be arrogant in the way they're kind of know-it-alls - they have perfect characters on the screen that know everything about themselves.

An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

If you are afflicted with an artistic feeling, it's just perfecting something.

It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.

The things people are ashamed of come through in whatever their outerwear is. I suppose I am always looking for that, even if it's somebody who, on the outside, seems to be perfect.

Her beauty, which was really marvellous, came from extreme regularity of feature harmonizing with the proportions of the head and the body. This species of perfection augurs ill for the mind; and there are few exceptions to the rule. All superior nature is found to have certain slight imperfections of form which become irresistible attractions, luminous points from which shine vivid sentiments, and on which the eye rests gladly.

Men without means ought to be perfect," added Moreau, not suspecting the profundity of that cruel sentence.

Otherwise a sculptor could save himself the trouble and take a cast of a woman! And yet, try making a cast of your mistress's hand and

If I take this tone in speaking of the world to you, I have the right to do so; I know it well. Do you think that I am blaming it? Far from it; the world has always been as it is now. Moralists' strictures will never change it. Mankind are not perfect, but one age is more or less hypocritical than another, and then simpletons say that its morality is high or low. I do not think that the rich are any worse than the poor; man is much the same, high or low, or wherever he is.

Talent in men is therefore, in all moral points, very much what beauty is in women, — simply a promise. Let us, therefore, doubly admire the man in whom both heart and character equal the perfection of his genius.

Such 'rubbish,' dear child," he resumed, "is frequently all that remains of vanished civilizations. An Etruscan jar, and a necklace, which sometimes fetch forty and fifty thousand francs, is 'rubbish' which reveals the perfection of art at the time of the siege of Troy, proving that the Etruscans were Trojan refugees in Italy.

A man without a flaw.

Christianity is not so much the advent of a better doctrine as of a perfect character.

Oh, the difference between nearly right and exactly right.