He that pleases himself too much with minute exactness, and submits to endure nothing in accommodations, attendance, or address below the point of perfection, will, whenever he enters the crowd of life, be harassed with innumerable distresses, from which those who have not in the same manner increased their sensations find no disturbance. His exotic […]
Imperfection Quotes
Man only ever scores nine out of ten.
When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.
If I could wish for my life to be perfect, it would be tempting but I would have to decline, for life would no longer teach me anything.
I’m not suggesting that the play is without fault; all my plays are imperfect, I’m rather happy to say – it leaves me something to do.
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
