“Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ilium?”
Christopher Marlowe
Power Of BeautyRomance
Beauty Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · BEAUTY
Beauty Quotes
Read 200 of the best beauty quotes on inner beauty, true beauty and the beauty of the world from Plato, Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, Kahlil Gibran and more.
“For of the soul the body form doth take; for soul is form, and doth the body make.”
Edmund Spenser
SoulInner Beauty
“No Spring nor Summer beauty hath such grace, as I have seen in one Autumnal face.”
John Donne
Aging GracefullyGrace
“Give me a look, give me a face, that makes simplicity a grace.”
Ben Jonson
SimplicityNatural Beauty
“A sweet disorder in the dress kindles in clothes a wantonness.”
Robert Herrick
ImperfectionCharm
“Beauty is Nature's coin, must not be hoarded.”
John Milton
SharingNature
“Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, in every gesture dignity and love.”
John Milton
GraceElegance
“Thy light alone gives grace and truth to life's unquiet dream.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
LightTruth
“A mind at peace with all below, a heart whose love is innocent!”
Lord Byron
Inner BeautyPeace
“And beauty born of murmuring sound shall pass into her face.”
William Wordsworth
NatureNatural Beauty
“Helen, thy beauty is to me like those Nicean barks of yore.”
Edgar Allan Poe
AdmirationRomance
“Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection, no more.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
PerfectionWarmth
“If you get simple beauty and nought else, you get about the best thing God invents.”
Robert Browning
SimplicityWonder
“All things counter, original, spare, strange.”
Gerard Manley Hopkins
UniquenessNature
“The young are beautiful - but the old are more beautiful than the young.”
Walt Whitman
Aging GracefullyAge
“The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
CharacterIndividuality
“A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; a beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
CharacterBehaviour
“The world thus exists to the soul to satisfy the desire of beauty.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
SoulWorld
“People often say that beauty is only skin deep. That may be so. But at least it is not so deep as thought.”
Oscar Wilde
AppearancesWitty
“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming.”
Oscar Wilde
PerceptionCharacter
“Every moment some form grows perfect in hand or face.”
Walter Pater
MomentsWonder
“Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
JoyWelcome
“We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
LoveCharacter
“Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
MysteryHeart
“By beauty I mean that quality or those qualities in bodies by which they cause love, or some passion similar to it.”
Edmund Burke
DefinitionLove