William Shakespeare Quotes About Perfection

• O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father refuse thy name, thou art thyself thou not a montegue, what is montegue? tis nor hand nor foot nor any other part belonging to a man What is in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, So Romeo would were he not Romeo called retain such dear perfection to which he owes without that title, Romeo, Doth thy name! And for that name which is no part of thee, take all thyself.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Sweet, Art

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

  William Shakespeare

  Perfection, Mars, Strive

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1785). “The Plays of William Shakspeare ...”, p.436

• 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.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Perfection, Able

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.587

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

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Perfection, Absolutes

  William Shakespeare (1856). “The works of William Shakspere. Knight's Cabinet ed., with additional notes”, p.99

• He is the half part 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.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Wedding, Lying

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.323

• To die, is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her, Is self from self: a deadly banishment! What light is light, if Silvia be not seen? What joy is joy, if Silvia be not by? Unless it be to think that she is by, And feed upon the shadow of perfection. Except I be by Silvia in the night, There is no music in the nightingale; Unless I look on Silvia in the day, There is no day for me to look upon; She is my essence, and I leave to be, If I be not by her fair influence Foster'd, illumin'd, cherish'd, kept alive.

  William Shakespeare

  Night, Thinking, Light

  'The Two Gentlemen Of Verona' (1592-3) act 3, sc. 1, l. 178

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

  William Shakespeare

  Perfection, Littles, Moments

  William Shakespeare, G. Blakemore Evans (2006). “The Sonnets”, p.34, Cambridge University Press

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

  William Shakespeare

  Perfection, Merchant Of Venice, Praise

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 102

• 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!

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, Perfection, Crow

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 5, sc. 1, l. 102

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

  William Shakespeare

  Perfection, Faces, Strange

  William Shakespeare, Sheldon P. Zitner (1998). “Much Ado about Nothing”, p.131, Oxford University Press, USA

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

  William Shakespeare

  Government, Perfection, Age

  William Shakespeare (1868). “The Tempest”, p.25

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