Quotes On Excess

I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.

- Henry James

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

- Oscar Wilde

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

- John Keats

The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.

- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette