Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Chadwick

If you obey the technique to perfection, that technique will become invisible.

Edith Schaeffer

In a fallen world, if you demand perfection or nothing, you will always get nothing.

Beatrix Potter

So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.

Baroness Orczy

I take it, sir, that you do not approve of our new society." "Approval, sir, in my opinion, demands the attainment of perfection. And in that sense, you rather overrate the charms of your society. I'faith, for one thing, it does seem monstrous ill-dressed for any society, even a new one.

Bill Nichols

There's no use being satisfied when things are done wrongly. I want perfection.

Bertrand Russell

Each act of cruelty is eternally a part of the universe; nothing that happens later can make that act good rather than bad, or can confer perfection on the whole of which it is a part.

Cheryl Richardson

I trust in the perfection of Divine Timing and allow my life to unfold as it should.

Charles Lamb

He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition.

William Shakespeare

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

John Grant

Something big, ... is about to happen at Notre Dame.

Dick Cavett

Every student of comedy should see Dame Edna at least twice.

Alan Cumming

You'll see Dame Judi Dench in a Bond film, in Shakespeare and then starring in her own sitcom. You never see that here with Meryl Streep.

Philip Larkin

One of the quainter quirks of life is that we shall never know who dies on the dame day as we do ourselves.

Frank Sinatra

You treat a lady like a dame, and a dame like a lady.

Bette Davis

I'm the nicest goddamn dame that ever lived.

Lou Holtz

You don't go to Notre Dame to learn something, you go to Notre Dame to be somebody.

Lou Holtz

Those who know Notre Dame, no explanation’s necessary. Those who don’t, no explanation will suffice.

John Lahr

Dame Edna is that rarest sighting in our time of the absolute comic, an inspired personification of caprice whose comedy answered the primal call to take the audience for a tumble.