Beauty Quotes

• "Not more the rose, the queen of flowers, Outblushes all the bloom of bower, Than she unrivall'd grace discloses; The sweetest rose, where all are roses."
  By: Thomas Moore, Odes of Anacreon (ode LXVI)
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• "Die when you will, you need not wear At heaven's Court a form more fair Than Beauty here on Earth has given: Keep but the lovely looks we see The voice we hear, and you will be An angel ready-made for heaven."
  By: Thomas Moore p. 36, a versification of "Life" by Lord Herbert of Cherbury
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• "The maid who modesty conceals Her beauties, while she hides, reveals: Gives but a glimpse, and fancy draws Whate'er the Grecian Venus was."
  By: Edward Moore, Spider and the Bee (fable X)
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• "We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face."
  By: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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• "The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty."
  By: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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• "Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never in its lustre but when puerile and beardless, confused and mixed with theirs."
  By: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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• "Lord Bacon makes beauty to consist of grace and motion."
  By: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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• "I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. But what goes with it can be a burden . . . people take a lot for granted and expect an awful lot for very little. A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing."
  By: Marilyn Monroe
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• "Yet beauty, tho' injurious, hath strange power, After offence returning, to regain Love once possess'd."
  By: John Milton, Samson Agonistes (l. 1003)
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• "And ladies of the Hesperides, that seemed Fairer than feign'd of old."
  By: John Milton, Paradise Regained (bk. II, l. 357)
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• ". . . for beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive. Cease to admire, and all her plumes Fall flat and shrink into a trivial toy, At every sudden slighting quite abash'd."
  By: John Milton, Paradise Regained (bk. II, l. 220)
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• "Hung over her enamour'd, and beheld Beauty, which, whether waking or asleep, Shot forth peculiar graces."
  By: John Milton, Paradise Lost (bk. V, l. 13)
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• "She fair, divinely fair, fit love for gods."
  By: John Milton, Paradise Lost (bk. IX, l. 489)
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• "Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown In courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, Where most may wonder at the workmanship."
  By: John Milton, Comus (l. 745)
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• "Beauty is Nature's coin, must not be hoarded, But must be current, and the good thereof Consists in mutual and partaken bliss."
  By: John Milton, Comus (l. 739)
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• "When I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems, And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discretest, best; All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded. Wisdom in discourse with her Loses, discount'nanc'd, and like folly shows."
  By: John Milton
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