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Thy Naiad airs have brought me home
To the glory that was Greece
And the grandeur that was Rome.
Edgar Allan Poe1809–1849To Helen, st. 2 (1831; these lines as revised in 1843)In context
- History
Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.
Walter Raleigh1552–1618Often credited to Emily Dickinson
- Marriage
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art.
Eleanor Roosevelt1884–1962
- Age
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
John Ruskin1819–1900The Stones of Venice (1853), Volume I, chapter II, section 17
The first effect of modernism was to make high culture difficult: to surround beauty with a wall of erudition.
Roger Scruton1944–2020Modern Culture (2000), “Avant-garde and Kitsch” (p. 85)
- Art
Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator.
William Shakespeare1564–1616The Rape of Lucrece (1594).
O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!
It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
As a rich jewel in an Ethiop’s ear;
Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!
William Shakespeare1564–1616Romeo and Juliet (c. 1595), Act I, Scene V, spoken by RomeoIn context
- Love
Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight!
For I ne’er saw true beauty till this night.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Romeo and Juliet (c. 1595), Act I, Scene V, spoken by RomeoIn context
- Love
O, wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world
That has such people in ’t!
William Shakespeare1564–1616The Tempest (c. 1611), Act V, Scene I, spoken by MirandaIn context
- Hope
Friendship is constant in all other things
Save in the office and affairs of love:
Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues;
Let every eye negotiate for itself
And trust no agent; for beauty is a witch
Against whose charms faith melteth into blood.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Much Ado About Nothing (c. 1598), Act II, Scene I, spoken by ClaudioIn context
- Friendship
- Love
Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.
William Shakespeare1564–1616As You Like It (c. 1599), Act I, Scene III, spoken by RosalindIn context
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date
William Shakespeare1564–1616Sonnet 18 (1609)In context
- Love
- Poetry
For ’tis the mind that makes the body rich;
And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds,
So honour peereth in the meanest habit.
What, is the jay more precious than the lark
Because his feathers are more beautiful?
William Shakespeare1564–1616The Taming of the Shrew (c. 1591), Act IV, Scene III, spoken by PetruchioIn context
- Character
The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne,
Burned on the water. The poop was beaten gold;
Purple the sails, and so perfumed that
The winds were love-sick with them; the oars were silver,
Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made
The water which they beat to follow faster,
As amorous of their strokes.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Antony and Cleopatra (c. 1606), Act II, Scene II, spoken by EnobarbusIn context
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale
Her infinite variety.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Antony and Cleopatra (c. 1606), Act II, Scene II, spoken by EnobarbusIn context
- Age