William Shakespeare Perfection Quotations

He is half of a blessed man. Left to be finished by such as she; and she a fair divided excellence, whose fullness of perfection lies in him.

Every thing that grows / Holds in perfection but a little moment.

How many things by season seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection!

But no perfection is so absolute, That some impurity doth not pollute.

The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither is attended; and I think The nightingale, if she should sing by day When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren. How many thing by season seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection!

It is the witness still of excellency to put a strange face on his own perfection.

I would with such perfection govern, sir, T'excel the golden age.

All lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never perform; vowing more than the perfection of ten, and discharging less than the tenth part of one.

Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well.