Beauty Quotes

“But, like a beautiful flower, full of colour and full of scent, are the fine and fruitful words of him who acts accordingly.”

Buddha (Dhammapada)

“Praised be my Lord God with all His creatures, and specially our brother the sun; he is beautiful and very bright.”

Francis of Assisi

“For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come.”

The Bible (Song of Solomon 2:11-12)

“The desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.”

The Bible (Isaiah 35:1)

“Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun.”

The Bible (Ecclesiastes 11:7)

“A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.”

The Bible (Proverbs 25:11)

“The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.”

The Bible (Psalm 16:6)

“Every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food.”

The Bible (Genesis 2:9)

“Nor did I wonder at the lily's white, nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose.”

William Shakespeare

“Daffodils, that come before the swallow dares, and take the winds of March with beauty.”

William Shakespeare

“Full many a glorious morning have I seen flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye.”

William Shakespeare

“The summer's flower is to the summer sweet, though to itself it only live and die.”

William Shakespeare

“Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.”

William Shakespeare

“Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!”

William Shakespeare

“'Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on.”

William Shakespeare

“From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: they sparkle still the right Promethean fire.”

William Shakespeare

“Who will in fairest book of Nature know how virtue may best lodged in beauty be, let him but learn of love to read in thee.”

Philip Sidney

“But the true fair, that is the gentle wit, and virtuous mind, is much more praised of me.”

Edmund Spenser

“Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, with charm of earliest birds.”

John Milton

“Annihilating all that's made to a green thought in a green shade.”

Andrew Marvell

“Death is a great price to pay for a red rose.”

Oscar Wilde

“Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods.”

Oscar Wilde

“Beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins.”

Oscar Wilde

“Everything about a person should be beautiful: face, clothes, soul and thoughts.”

Anton Chekhov

“Ah, linger on, thou art so fair!”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe