Perfection Quotes. Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922

Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922.

Perfection


Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle. Michael Angelo. See C. C. Colton—Lacon.	1
What’s come to perfection perishes, Things learned on earth we shall practise in heaven; Works done least rapidly Art most cherishes. Robert Browning—Old Pictures in Florence. St. 17.	2
The very pink of perfection. Goldsmith—She Stoops to Conquer. Act I. Sc. 1.	3
Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne’er was, nor is, nor e’er shall be. Pope—Essay on Criticism. Pt. II. L. 53.	4
Whose dear perfection hearts that scorn’d to serve Humbly call’d mistress. All’s Well That Ends Well. Act V. Sc. 3. L. 16.	5
How many things by season season’d are To their right praise and true perfection! Merchant of Venice. Act V. Sc. 1. L. 107.	6
It is the witness still of excellency To put a strange face on his own perfection. Much Ado About Nothing. Act II. Sc. 3. L. 48.	7
A man cannot have an idea of perfection in another, which he was never sensible of in himself. Steele—The Tatler. No. 227.	8
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—Song of the Universal.	9