IMPERFECTION

Related Subjects: Faults, Purity

1. What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.—ADDISON
   

2. He censures God who quarrels with the imperfections of men.—BURKE
   

3. It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of others.—FENELON
   

4. The finer the nature, the more flaws will show through the clearness of it; and it is a law of this universe that the befit things shall be seldomest seen in their best forms.—RUSKIN
   

5. No perfection is so absolute,
   That some impurity doth not pollute.—SHAKESPEARE, The Rape of Lucrece
   

6. Our erected wit maketh us know what perfection is, and yet our infected will keepeth us from reaching unto it.—SIR PHILIP SIDNEY, The Defense of Poesie
   

7. To keep in sight Perfection, and adore
   The vision, is the artist's best delight;
   His bitterest pang, that he can ne'er do more
   Than keep her long'd-f or loveliness in sight.—WILLIAM WATSON, Epigrams
   

8. Even the vainest among us feels that he is not perfect, not so perfect as he would like others to think him.—STEFAN ZWEIG