Beauty Quotes

• "Beauty has been the delight and torment of the world ever since it began. The philosophers have felt its influence so sensibly that almost every one of them has left some saying or other which intimates that he knew too well the power of it."
  By: Sir Richard Steele
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• "Beauties, whether male or female, are generally the most untractable people of all others."
  By: Sir Richard Steele
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• "They seemed to whisper: "How handsome she is! What wavy tresses! what sweet perfume! Under her mantle she hides her wings; Her flower of a bonnet is just in bloom.""
  By: Edmund Clarence Stedman, Translation--Jean Prouvaire's Song at the Barricade
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• "Her face so faire, as flesh it seemed not, But heavenly pourtraict of bright angels' hew, Cleare as the skye withouten blame or blot, Through goodly mixture of complexion's dew."
  By: Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (canto III, st. 22)
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• "For all that faire is, is by nature good; That is a signe to know the gentle blood."
  By: Edmund Spenser, An Hymne in Honour of Beauty (l. 139)
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• "Ye tradeful merchants! that with weary toil, Do seek most precious things to make you gaine, And both the Indies of their treasures spoil; What needeth you to seek so far in vain? For lo! my love doth in herself contain All this world's riches that may far be found; If saphyrs, lo! her eyes be saphyrs plain; If rubies, lo! her lips be rubies sound; If pearls, her teeth be pearls, both pure and round; If ivory, her forehead's ivory I ween; If gold, her locks are finest gold on ground; If silver, her fair hands are silver sheen; But that which fairest is, but few behold, Her mind, adorn'd with virtues manifold."
  By: Edmund Spenser
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• "Naught under heaven so strongly doth allure the sense of man and all his mind possess, as beauty's love-bait."
  By: Edmund Spenser
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• "For beauty is the bait which, with delight, doth man allure for to enlarge his kind."
  By: Edmund Spenser
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• "Though color be the lowest of all the constituent parts of beauty, yet it is vulgarly the most striking."
  By: Joseph Spence
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• "O beloved Pan, and all ye other gods of this place, grant me to become beautiful in the inner man."
  By: Socrates, in Plato's "Phaedrus", end
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• "Every good picture is the best of sermons and lectures. The sense informs the soul. Whatever you have, have beauty."
  By: Sydney Smith
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• "She died in beauty--like a rose blown from its parent stem."
  By: Charles Doyne Sillery, She Died in Beauty
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• "Lovely sweetness is the noblest power of woman, and is far fitter to prevail by parley than by battle."
  By: Sir Philip Sidney (Sydney)
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• "Liking is not always the child of beauty; but whatsoever is liked, to the liker is beautiful."
  By: Sir Philip Sidney (Sydney)
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• "Beauty can give an edge to the bluntest sword."
  By: Sir Philip Sidney (Sydney)
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• "'Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on."
  By: William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, or, What You Will (Viola at I, v)
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