Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience, and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain for them the protection of man; and should they be beautiful, every thing else […]
Beauty - Beautiful Quotes
I will beat thee into handsomeness. (Troilus and Cressida)
I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.
Beauty itself doth of itself persuade The eyes of men without an orator. (The Rape of Lucrece)
Everything is beautiful in its own way Like a starry summer night or a snow covered winter’s day.
You show me a woman with a naturally beautiful body, and I’ll show you a tramp.
Thy never-conquer’d fort: the fault is thine, For those thine eyes betray thee unto mine. | Thus I forestall thee, if thou mean to chide: Thy beauty hath ensnared thee to this night, | Where thou with patience must my will abide; My will that marks thee for my earth’s delight. (The Rape of Lucrece)
Beauty is momentary in the mind The fitful tracing of a portal; But in the flesh it is immortal. The body dies; the body’s beauty lives.
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art.
Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear. (Romeo and Juliet)
