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43 Quotes for 'Beauty' in the Database.
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Tell me, shepherds, have you seen
My Flora pass this way?
In shape and feature Beauty's queen,
In pastoral array.
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: The Wreath, from "The Lyre"
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Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover,
Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.
Author: Joseph Addison
Source: Cato (act I, sc. 4)
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What is lovely never dies,
But passes into other loveliness,
Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.
Author: Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Source: A Shadow of the Night
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I must not say that she was true,
Yet let me say that she was fair;
And they, that lovely face who view,
They should not ask if truth be there.
Author: Matthew Arnold
Source: Euphrosyne
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The beautiful are never desolate;
But some one alway loves them--God or man.
If man abandons, God himself takes them.
Author: Philip James Bailey
Source: Festus (sc. Water and Wood Midnight)
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There's nothing that allays an angry mind
So soon as a sweet beauty.
Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
Source: The Elder Brother (act III, sc. 5)
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Ye Gods! but she is wondrous fair!
For me her constant flame appears;
The garland she hath culled, I wear
On brows bald since my thirty years.
Ye veils that deck my loved one rare,
Fall, for the crowning triumph's nigh.
Ye Gods! but she is wondrous fair!
And I, so plain a man am I!
Author: Pierre Jean de Beranger
Source: Qu'elle est jolie
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The beauty seems right
By force of beauty, and the feeble wrong
Because of weakness.
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Source: Aurora Leigh (bk. I)
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The essence of all beauty, I call love,
The attribute, the evidence, and end,
The consummation to the inward sense
Of beauty apprehended from without,
I still call love.
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Source: Sword Glare
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And behold there was a very stately palace before him, the name
of which was Beautiful.
Author: John Bunyan
Source: Pilgrim's Progress (pt. I)
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The light of love, the purity of grace,
The mind, the Music breathing from her face,
The heart whose softness harmonized the whole,
And, oh! the eye was in itself a Soul!
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Bride of Abydos (canto I, st. 6)
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Who doth not feel, until his failing sight
Faints into dimness with its own delight,
His changing cheek, his sinking heart confess,
The might--the majesty of Loveliness?
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Bride of Abydos (canto I, st. 6)
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Thou who hast
The fatal gist of beauty.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Childe Harold (canto IV, st. 42)
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Her glossy hair was cluster'd o'er a brow
Bright with intelligence, and fair and smooth;
Her eyebrow's shape was like the aerial bow,
Her cheek all purple with the beam of youth,
Mounting, at times, to a transparent glow,
As if her veins ran lightning.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Don Juan (canto I, st. 61)
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A lovely being, scarcely formed or moulded,
A rose with all its sweetest leaves yet folded.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Don Juan (canto XV, st. 43)
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She walks in beauty like the night
Of cloudless chimes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: She Walks in Beauty
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All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which
only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.
[Sp., No todas hermosuras enamoran, que algunas alegran la vista,
y no rinden la voluntad.]
Author: Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)
Source: Don Quixote (II, 6)
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Exceeding fair she was not; and yet fair
In that she never studied to be fairer
Than Nature made her; her beauty cost her nothing,
Her virtues were so rare.
Author: George Chapman
Source: All Fools (act I, sc. 1)
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I pour into the world the eternal streams
Wan prophets tent beside, and dream their dreams.
Author: John Vance Cheney
Source: Beauty
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She is not fair to outward view
As many maidens be;
Her loveliness I never knew
Until she smiled on me:
Oh! then I saw her eye was bright,
A well of love, a spring of light.
Author: Hartley Coleridge
Source: Song
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Her gentle limbs did she undress,
And lay down in her loveliness.
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Source: Christabel (pt. I, st. 24)
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Beauty is the lover's gift.
Author: William Congreve
Source: The Way of the World (act II, sc. 2)
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The ladies of St. James's!
They're painted to the eyes;
Their white is stays for ever,
Their red it never dies;
But Phyllida, my Phillida!
Her colour comes and goes;
It trembles to a lily,--
It wavers to a rose.
Author: Henry Austin Dobson
Source: At the Sign of the Lyre
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Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit,
The power of beauty I remember yet,
Which once inflam'd my soul, and still inspires my wit.
Author: John Dryden
Source: Cymon and Iphigenia (l. 1)
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When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind!
Author: John Dryden
Source: Cymon and Iphigenia (l. 41)
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Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief she is beautiful. •Sophia Loren Nothing's beautiful from every point of view. •Horace Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away. •George Brossin Méré ...It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have. •James Matthew Barrie In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. •Christopher Morley Beauty is power; a smile is its sword. •Charles Reade Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense. •Kin Hubbard Beauty is not caused. It is. •Emily Dickinson Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused. •Edward Gibbon My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms -- will it return to my body when they scatter? •Kotomichi Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile. •Campbell Champagne is the only wine a woman can drink and still remain beautiful. •Mme. de Pompadour Conceit is to nature what paint is to beauty; it is not only needless, but impairs what it would improve. •Pope Delusions are often functional. A mother's opinions about her children's beauty, intelligence, goodness, et cetera ad nauseam, keep her from drowning them at birth. •Lazarus Long Honesty coupled to beauty is to have honey a sauce to sugar. •Shakespeare It is good that the young are beautiful; it is the only advantage they have. •The Duchess of Windsor Love that has nothing but beauty to keep it in good health is short lived, and apt to have ague fits. •Erasmus The beautiful are never desolate, But someone always loves them. •Bailey Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband. •Ambrose Bierce Everything beautiful has its moment and then passes away. •Luis Cernuda Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. •Ralph Waldo Emerson Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. But beautiful women don't need to know about men. It's the men who have to know about beautiful women. •Katherine Hepburn A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever. •Helen Rowland There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. •Countess of Blessington Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart. •Johann von Schiller When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty. •Gregory I The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman, any woman, with beautiful legs. •Marlene Dietrich Beauty is truth, truth beauty, that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. •John Keats I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas? •Jean Kerr The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt. •Anonymous What ever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity. •Father Andre Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference. •Aristotle I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation. •Tyra Banks Exuberance is beauty. •William Blake Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful! •Bessie Delanay As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker. •Ralph Waldo Emerson Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. •Kahlil Gibran Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder. •Immermann Beauty is a short-lived tyranny. •Socrates Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
Author: Sophia Loren
Source: None
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You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing. •Marie Carmichael Stopes Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
Author: Marie Carmichael Stopes
Source: None
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Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.
Author: Charles Reade
Source: None
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... it's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have.
Author: James Matthew Barrie
Source: None
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I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
Author: Benedict Spinoza
Source: None
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the call
of a loon
across
a
quiet lake.
Author: Conserve New Hampshire
Source: None
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On the beach at night,
Stands a child with her father,
Watching the east, the autumn sky.
Up through the darkness,
While ravening clouds, the burial clouds, in black masses spreading,
Lower sullen and fast athwart and down the sky,
Amid a transparent clear belt of ether yet left in the east,
Ascends large and calm the lord-star Jupiter,
And nigh at hand, only a very little above,
Swim the delicate sisters the Pleiades.
From the beach the child holding the hand of her father,
Those burial-clouds that lower victorious soon to devour all,
Watching, silently weeps.
Weep not, child,
Weep not, my darling,
With these kisses let me remove your tears,
The ravening clouds shall not long be victorious,
They shall not long possess the sky, they devour the stars only in apparition,
Jupiter shall emerge, be patient, watch again another night,
the Pleiades shall emerge,
They are immortal, all those stars both silvery and golden shall shine out again,
The great stars and the little ones shall shine out again, they endure,
The vast immortal suns and the long-enduring pensive moons shall again shine.
Then dearest child mournest thou only for jupiter?
Considerest thou alone the burial of the stars?
Something there is, (With my lips soothing thee, adding I whisper,
I give thee the first suggestion, the problem and indirection,)
Something there is more immortal even than the stars,
(Many the burials, many the days and nights, passing away,)
Something that shall endure longer even than lustrous Jupiter
Longer than sun or any revolving satellite,
Or the radiant sisters the Pleiades.
Author: Walt Whitman
Source: None
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Paris wrapped in night! half nebulous
The moonlight streams o'er the blue-shadowed roofs..
A lovely frame for this wild battlescene
Beneath the vapor's floating scarves, the Seine
Trembles, mysterious, like a magic mirror
Cyrano Act 5.
Author: Edmund Rostand
Source: None
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Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.
Author: Horace
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Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.
Author: Kin Hubbard
Source: None
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Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.
Author: Johann Von Schiller
Source: None
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In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
Author: Christopher Morley
Source: None
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Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
Author: Edward Gibbon
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Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
Author: George Brossin Méré
Source: None
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My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms -- will it return to my body when they scatter?
Author: Kotomichi
Source: None
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Beauty is not caused. It is.
Author: Emily Dickinson
Source: None
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Author: Frank Zappa
Source: None
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You came to me like a dream, you held me in reality and will leave me gasping for your loving breath when you are gone....
Author: Paul Acquasanta
Source: None
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