Quotes about Beauty

Ulysses was not comely, but he was eloquent, Yet he fired two goddesses of the sea with love

Oh fair, oh sweet and holy as dew at morning tide, I gaze on thee, and yearnings, sad in my bosom hide.

I pray that the life of this spring and summer may ever lie fair in my memory.

Yet, he thought, if I can die saying, "Life is so beautiful, " then nothing else is important. If i can believe in myself that much, nothing else matters.

We are given this beautiful life, this beautiful world, and we destroy it with ingratitude and hate.

O fairest of creation! last and best of all God's works! creature in whom excell'd whatever can to sight or thought be form'd, Holy, divine, good, amiable, or sweet! How art thou lost, how on a sudden lost, Defac'd, deflower'd, and now to Death devote?

And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. There let the pealing organ blow, to the full-voiced choir below, in service high, and anthems clear as may, with sweetness, through mine ear dissolve me into ecstasies, and bring all Heaven before mine eyes.

Anon they move in perfect phalanx, to the Dorian mood of flutes and soft recorders.

These my sky-robes, spun out of Iris' woof.

Meadows trim, with daisies pied, shallow brooks, and rivers wide; Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The cynosure of neighboring eyes.

Beauty is nature's coin, must not be hoarded, But must be current, and the good thereof consists in mutual and partaken bliss.

Abash'd the Devil stood, and felt how awful goodness is, and saw virtue in her shape how lovely.