“How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!”
William Shakespeare
MoonNight
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.
“Look how the floor of heaven is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold.”
William Shakespeare
StarsNight
“That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”
William Shakespeare
RosesTrue Beauty
“When daisies pied and violets blue, and lady-smocks all silver-white, do paint the meadows with delight.”
William Shakespeare
FlowersSpring
“My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun.”
William Shakespeare
HonestyReal Beauty
“And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare as any she belied with false compare.”
William Shakespeare
True LoveReal Beauty
“Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.”
William Shakespeare
DawnMountains
“Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray had in her sober livery all things clad.”
John Milton
EveningTwilight
“Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, the bridal of the earth and sky.”
George Herbert
DayPeace
“Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like season'd timber, never gives.”
George Herbert
Inner BeautyVirtue
“I saw Eternity the other night, like a great ring of pure and endless light.”
Henry Vaughan
EternityLight
“You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars.”
Thomas Traherne
WonderGratitude
“The moon doth with delight look round her when the heavens are bare.”
William Wordsworth
MoonJoy
“Therefore am I still a lover of the meadows and the woods, and mountains.”
William Wordsworth
NatureLove
“To one who has been long in city pent, 'tis very sweet to look into the fair and open face of heaven.”
John Keats
SkyFreedom
“Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird!”
John Keats
BirdsEternal Beauty
“The desire of the moth for the star, of the night for the morrow.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
LongingStars
“O Wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
AutumnWind
“The moon is up, and yet it is not night.”
Lord Byron
MoonEvening
“The splendour falls on castle walls and snowy summits old in story.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
LightMountains
“The sea is calm to-night. The tide is full, the moon lies fair upon the straits.”
Matthew Arnold
SeaMoon
“Summer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the stooks rise around.”
Gerard Manley Hopkins
HarvestSummer
“The Moon was but a Chin of Gold a Night or two ago.”
Emily Dickinson
MoonNight
“The morns are meeker than they were, the nuts are getting brown.”
Emily Dickinson
AutumnNature
“Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, arrives the snow.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
SnowWinter