Beauty Quotes

• "A beautiful face fires our imagination, and we see higher virtue and intelligence in it than we can detect in its owner's head or heart when we descend to calm inspection."
  By: Charles Reade
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• "No better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; no true beauty without the signature of these graces in the very countenance."
  By: John Ray (Wray)
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• "If thou marry beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which, perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year."
  By: Sir Walter Raleigh (1)
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• "Too exact, and studious of similitude rather than of beauty. [Lat., Nimis in veritate, et similitudinis quam pulchritudinis amantior.]"
  By: Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilianus), De Institutione Oratoria (XII, 10, 9)
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• "The fountain of beauty is the heart, and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber."
  By: Francis Quarles
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• "If virtue accompany it, it is the heart's paradise; if vice associate it, it is the soul's purgatory."
  By: Francis Quarles
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• "Gaze not on beauty too much, lest it blast thee; nor too long, lest it blind thee; nor too near, lest it burn thee. If thou like it, it deceives thee; if thou love it, it disturbs thee; if thou hunt after it, it destroys thee. If virtue accompany it, it is the heart's paradise; if vice associate it, it is the soul's purgatory. It is the wise man's bonfire, and the fool's furnace."
  By: Francis Quarles
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• "For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine."
  By: Matthew Prior, To the Countess of Oxford
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• "No longer shall the bodice aptly lac'd From thy full bosom to thy slender waist, That air and harmony of shape express, Fine by degrees, and beautifully less."
  By: Matthew Prior, Henry and Emma (l. 429)
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• "Beauty of form affects the mind, but then it must be understood that it is not the mere shell that we admire; we are attracted by the idea that this shell is only a beautiful case adjusted to the shape and value of a still more beautiful pearl within. The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering."
  By: Jane Porter
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• "Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul."
  By: Alexander Pope, Rape of the Lock (canto V, l. 33)
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• "'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all."
  By: Alexander Pope, Essay--On Criticism (pt. II, l. 45)
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• "There should be, methinks, as little merit in loving a woman for her beauty as in loving a man for his prosperity; both being equally subject to change."
  By: Alexander Pope
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• "Beauty, whatever kind, is in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears."
  By: Edgar Allan Poe
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• "It is a great plague to be too handsome a man. [Lat., Nimia est miseria nimis pulchrum esse hominem.]"
  By: Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus), Miles Gloriosus (I, 1, 68)
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• "Is beauty vain because it will fade? Then are earth's green robe and heaven's light vain."
  By: John Pierpont
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