Beauty Quotes

• "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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• "There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple. If the ill spirit have so fair a house, Good things will strive to dwell with't."
  By: William Shakespeare, The Tempest (Miranda at I, ii)
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• "Say that she frown, I'll say she looks as clear As morning roses newly washed with dew."
  By: William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew (Petruchio at II, i)
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• "Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; A shining gloss that vadeth suddenly; A flower that dies when first it 'gins to bud; A brittle glass that's broken presently; A doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, Lost, vaded, broken, dead within an hour."
  By: William Shakespeare, The Passionate Pilgrim (XIII, l. 1), a poem of doubtful authenticity
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• "Heaven bless thee, Thou hast the sweetest face I ever looked on. Sir, as I have a soul, she is an angel; Our king has all the Indies in his arms, And more, and richer, when he strains that lady. I cannot blame his conscience."
  By: William Shakespeare, The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Gentleman at IV, i)
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• "Of nature's gifts thou mayst with lilies boast And with the half-blown rose."
  By: William Shakespeare, The Life and Death of King John (Constance at III, i)
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• "O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem By that sweet ornament which truth doth give: The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem For that sweet odor which doth in it live."
  By: William Shakespeare, Sonnet LIV
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• "O, no, a lanthorn, slaught'red youth, For here lies Juliet, and her beauty makes This vault a feasting presence full of light."
  By: William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (Romeo at V, iii)
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• "But soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the East, and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief That thou her maid art far more fair than she. Be not her maid, since she is envious. Her vestal livery is but since and green, And none but fools fo wear it. Cast it off. It is my lady; O, it is my love! O that she knew she were!"
  By: William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (Romeo at II, i)
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• "O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night As a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear-- Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!"
  By: William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (Romeo at I, v)
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• "Yet I'll not shed her blood, Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow, And smooth as monumental alabaster."
  By: William Shakespeare, Othello the Moor of Venice (Othello at V, ii)
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• "Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent; for beauty is a witch Against whose charms faith melteth into blood."
  By: William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (Claudio at II, i)
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• "A withered hermit, five-score winters worn, Might shake off fifty, looking in her eye: Beauty doth varnish age as if new-born, And gives the crutch the cradle's infancy. O, 'tis the sun that maketh all things shine!"
  By: William Shakespeare, Love's Labor's Lost (Berowne at IV, iii)
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• "Good Lord Boyet, my beauty, though but mean, Needs not the painted flourish of your praise: Beauty is bought by judgment of the eye, Not uttered by base sale of chapman's tongues."
  By: William Shakespeare, Love's Labor's Lost (Princess of France at II, i)
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