Quotes about Beauty
Not that fair field of Enna, where proserpin gathering flowers herself a fairer flower by gloomy dis was gathered, which cost Ceres all that pain to seek her through the world.
— John Milton
Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!
— John Milton
Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose.
— John Milton
The star that bids the shepherd fold.
— John Milton
At whose sight all the stars hide their diminish'd heads.
— John Milton
O nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray warbl'st at eve, when all the woods are still.
— John Milton
Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once moreYe myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forc'd fingers rude shatter your leaves before the mellowing year.
— John Milton
Ladies, whose bright eyes rain influence, and judge the prize.
— John Milton
A bevy of fair women.
— John Milton
Hail divinest Melancholy.
— John Milton
Unless men see a beauty and delight in the worship of God, they will not do it willingly.
— John Owen
He has made me wary of chronological snobbery. That is, he showed me that newness is no virtue and oldness is no vice. Truth and beauty and goodness are not determined by when they exist. Nothing is inferior for being old, and nothing is valuable for being modern. This has freed me from the tyranny of novelty and opened for me the wisdom of the ages.
— John Piper