W. Somerset Maugham Perfection Quotations

It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.

Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.

Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers.

American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.