Quotes About Beauty

As well a well-wrought urn becomesThe greatest ashes, as half-acre tombs.

No spring nor summer's beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one Autumnal face....

My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears,And true plain hearts do in the faces rest,Where can we find two better hemispheresWithout sharp North, without declining West?

I am a little world made cunninglyOf elements, and an angelic sprite.

Her pure, and eloquent bloodSpoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought,That one might almost say, her body thought.

No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace,As I have seen in one autumnal face.

And swearNo whereLives a woman true, and fair.

But he who loveliness withinHath found, all outward loathes,For he who color loves, and skin,Loves but their oldest clothes.

The AlphabetOf flowers.

A bracelet of bright hair about the bone.

If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee.

GO AND CATCH A FALLING STAR.

Thou, sun, art half as happy as we.

We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order - poetry and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible.

Beauty is nothing else but a just accord and mutual harmony of the members, animated by a healthful constitution.

All heiresses are beautiful.

For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.

And, like another Helen, fir'd another Troy.

Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.

For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.

Your Cleopatra; Dolabella's Cleopatra; every man's Cleopatra.

This is the porcelain clay of humankind.

Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.