William Shakespeare Quotes About Beauty

• To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I ey'd, Such seems your beauty still.

  William Shakespeare

  Birthday, Anniversary, Beauty

  1609 Sonnets, sonnet 104.

• Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye.

  William Shakespeare

  Beauty, Eye, Beautiful Women

  William Shakespeare (1793). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added Notes”, p.210

• If I could write the beauty of your eyes And in fresh numbers number all your graces, The age to come would say, 'This poet lies; Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces.'

  William Shakespeare

  Beauty, Lying, Writing

  Sonnet 17

• See how she leans her cheek upon her hand. O, that I were a glove upon that hand That I might touch that cheek!

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Beauty, Hands

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 23

• Beauty lives with kindness.

  William Shakespeare

  Beauty, Kindness, Beauty Of Life

  'The Two Gentlemen Of Verona' (1592-3) act 4, sc. 2, l. 40

• She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Beauty, Beautiful

  'Henry VI, Part 1' (1592) act 5, sc. 3, l. 78.

• What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

  William Shakespeare

  Beauty, Moving, Angel

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [316]

• For where is any author in the world Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye?

  William Shakespeare

  Beauty, Eye, World

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.93

• Beauty itself doth of itself persuade the eyes of men without an orator.

  William Shakespeare

  Beauty, Eye, Men

  'The Rape Of Lucrece' (1594) l. 29

• Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly; a flower that dies when it begins to bud; a doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour.

  William Shakespeare

  Beauty, Flower, Glasses

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.940

• Beauty's a doubtful good, a glass, a flower, Lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour; And beauty, blemish'd once, for ever's lost, In spite of physic, painting, pain, and cost.

  William Shakespeare

  Beauty, Beautiful, Pain

• Virtue is beauty, but the beauteous evil.
  Are empty trunks o'erflourished by the devil.

  William Shakespeare

  Beauty, Evil, Hypocrisy

  William Shakespeare (2016). “Twelfth Night”, p.68, Penguin

• Let witchcraft join with beauty, lust with both!

  William Shakespeare

  Beauty, Lust, Witchcraft

  William Shakespeare (1773). “The Plays of William Shakespeare. In Ten Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added Notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. With an Appendix..”, p.138

• Were beauty under twenty locks kept fast, yet love breaks through and picks them all at last.

  William Shakespeare

  Beauty, Break Through, Twenties

  William Shakespeare (2006). “The Poems: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, A Lover's Complaint”, p.117, Cambridge University Press

• The most peerless piece of earth, I think, that e' er the sun shone bright on.

  William Shakespeare

  Beauty, Thinking, Pieces

  William Shakespeare, John Pitcher (2010). “The Winter's Tale: Third Series”, p.318, A&C Black

• Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white
  Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on.

  William Shakespeare

  Beauty, Sweet, White

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. [257]

• Look on beauty,
  And you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight,
  Which therein works a miracle in nature,
  Making them lightest that wear most of it.

  William Shakespeare

  Beauty, Women, Miracle

  1596-7 Bassanio, aside.TheMerchant ofVenice, act 3, sc.2, l.88-91.

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