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Tell me, shepherds, have you seen My Flora pass this way? In shape and feature Beauty's queen, In pastoral array. - Unattributed Author, The Wreath, from "The Lyre" Beauty is like an almanac; if it lasts a year, it is well. - Thomas Adam Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature. - Joseph Addison In the recognition of beauty, the eye takes the most delight in color. - Joseph Addison The very first discovery of beauty strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties. - Joseph Addison Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense. - Joseph Addison, Cato (act I, sc. 4) She was short on intellect, but long on shape. - George Ade You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older. - Anouk Aimee Thus, then, was Beauty sent from heaven, The lovely ministress of Truth and Good In this dark world: for Truth and Good are one; And Beauty dwells in them, and they in her, With like participation. - Mark Akenside, The Pleasures of Imagination What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air. - Thomas Bailey Aldrich, A Shadow of the Night Whatever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity. - Father Andre Things are beautiful if you love them. - Jean Anouilh Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of introduction. - Aristotle Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people. - Richard Armour I must not say that she was true, Yet let me say that she was fair; And they, that lovely face who view, They should not ask if truth be there. - Matthew Arnold, Euphrosyne Might but the sense of moral evil be as strong in me as is my delight in external beauty! - Thomas Arnold Sometimes there are living beings in nature as beautiful as in romance. Reality surpasses imagination; and we see breathing, brightening, and, moving before our eyes sights dearer to our hearts than any we ever beheld in the land of sleep. - Jane Austen (signed first book "By a Lady") Beauty is as summer fruits, which are easy to corrupt and cannot last; and for the most part it makes a dissolute youth, and an age a little out of countenance; but if it light well, it makes virtues shine and vice blush. - Francis Bacon It is seldom that beautiful persona are otherwise of great virtue. - Francis Bacon That is the best part of beauty which a picture cannot express. - Francis Bacon The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express. - Francis Bacon Her cheek had the pale pearly pink Of sea shells, the world's sweetest tint, as though She lived, one-half might deem, on roses sopp'd In pearly dew. - Philip James Bailey The fringe of the garment of the Lord. - Philip James Bailey The beautiful are never desolate; But some one alway loves them--God or man. If man abandons, God himself takes them. - Philip James Bailey, Festus (sc. Water and Wood Midnight) To make the cunning artless, tame the rude, subdue the haughty, shake the undaunted soul; yea, put a bridle in the lion's mouth, and lead him forth as a domestic cur,--these are the triumphs of all-powerful beauty. - Joanna Baillie Displaying page 1 of 17 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
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