Beauty Quotes - Page 35

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

  William Shakespeare

  Break Through, Twenties, Locks

  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

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

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, Pieces, Earth

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

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• England...the greatest and the most glorious and beautiful land on earth.

  Kedar Joshi

  Beautiful, Land, Earth

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• The world is truly beautiful solely in the eyes of a true philosopher.

  Kedar Joshi

  Beautiful, Eye, World

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• It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the 'dear deceit' of beauty.

  T. S. Eliot

  Eye, Deceit, Firsts

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• On a feeling and sensitive mind a demolished forest impresses unmingled sadness, whereas its primeval grandeur must inspire anyone to immeasurable delight, who is susceptible to the beauties of nature.

  Ferdinand von Mueller

  Sadness, Inspire, Feelings

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• I have consciously sought after those things which make for value, order, richness, spirit and wonder, even though I am often unable to verbalize what I feel when I perceive something beautiful. Sometimes it's a pang or a sensation; at other times it is an awareness of joy and security or pure pleasure. In any event, it is a moment to be celebrated. Beauty justifies itself. The fact that it is beyond definition means nothing.

  Luci Swindoll

  Beautiful, Mean, Order

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• Looking for the essence of beauty is comprehending and appreciating that quality in an object which is fairer and better than only what our eyes see or our ears hear, whether that be a patch of blue in an overcast sky, the fleeting laughter from a voice we love, or something as unexpected as the rainbow colors in a spot of oil on the driveway.

  Luci Swindoll

  Laughter, Eye, Color

  Luci Swindoll (1989). “You Bring the Confetti”, W Publishing Group

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• Physical beauty is the sign of an interior beauty, a spiritual and moral beauty which is the basis, the principle, and the unity of the beautiful.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Unity

  Friedrich Schiller (2015). “Aesthetical Essays of Schiller: Top Classic of German”, p.5, 谷月社

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• It is worth nothing to be young without being beautiful, nor to be beautiful without being young.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Beautiful, Young, Being Beautiful

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• Beauty and Truth, tho' never found, are worthy to be sought.

  Robert Williams Buchanan

  Found, Worthy

  Robert Williams Buchanan (1865). “Undertones”, p.11

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• If thou art beautiful, and youth and thought endue thee with all truth-be strong;--be worthy of the grace of God.

  William Wordsworth

  Beautiful, Art, Strong

  William Wordsworth (1994). “The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.402, Wordsworth Editions

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• Beauty brings its own fancy price, for all that a man hath will he give for his love.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love Is, Men, Giving

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• The ancients called beauty the flowering of virtue.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Virtue, Flowering

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Essays (Annotated Edition)”, p.95, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Too much beauty, I reckon, is nothing but too much sun.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Sun, Too Much

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”

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• The only beautiful things are the things that do not concern us.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Art, Philosophy

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.758, GENERAL PRESS

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• Beauty is not, as fond men misdeem, an outward show of things that only seem.

  Edmund Spenser

  Men, Shows, Seems

  'An Hymn in Honour of Beauty' l. 90

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• Beauty, if you do not open your doors, takes age from lack of use.

  Ovid

  Doors, Age, Use

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• Great is the strife between beauty and modesty.

  Ovid

  Modesty, Strife

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• A frail gift is beauty, which grows less as time draws on, and is devoured by its own years.

  Ovid

  Years, Frail, Draws

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• It is in rare and scattered instants that beauty smiles even on her adorers, who are reduced for habitual comfort to remembering her past favours.

  George Santayana

  Past, Comfort, Favour

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2015). “The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Art, Volume VII, Book Four”, p.118, MIT Press

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• To draw true beauty shows a master's hand.

  John Dryden

  Hands, Masters, Shows

  John Dryden (1861). “Poetical Works”, p.207

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• Women have, in general, but ne object, which is their beauty; upon which, scarce any flattery is too gross for them to swallow.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Flattery, Gross, Objects

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.60, Oxford University Press

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• Women's beauty, like men's wit, is generally fatal to the owners.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Men, Owners, Wit

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• Every day stop before something beautiful long enough to say, "Isn’t that b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l!"

  Alice Freeman Palmer

  Beautiful, Long, Enough

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