Edgar Allan Poe Quotes About Perfection

Quotes about: Perfection

• I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

  Edgar Allan Poe (1980). “The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings”, p.4, City Lights Books

• Tell a scoundrel, three or four times a day, that he is the pink of probity, and you make him at least the perfection of "respectability" in good earnest. On the other hand, accuse an honorable man, too petinaciously, of being a villain, and you fill him with a perverse ambition to show you that you are not altogether in the wrong.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Revenge, Ambition, Men

• But in the expression of the countenance, which was beaming all over with smiles, there still lurked (incomprehensible anomalyl) that fitful strain of melancholy which will ever be found inseparable from the perfection of the beautiful.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Beautiful, Perfection, Melancholy

  "The Works of Edgar Allan Poe".

• The result of law inviolate is perfection–right–negative happiness. The result of law violate is imperfection, wrong, positive pain.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Pain, Law, Perfection

  Edgar Allan Poe (1845). “Tales”, p.56

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