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 - Beautiful Quotes
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)
I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after.
Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
