“The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own.”
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“There's nothing that allays an angry mind So soon as a sweet beauty.”
Source: Beaumont and Fletcher: or, The finest scenes, lyrics, and other beauties of those two poets, now first selected from the whole of their works, to the exclusion of whatever is morally objectionable: with opinions of distinguished critics, notes explanatory and otherwise, and a general introductory preface
“Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?”
Source: The Virginians: Christie's Collections
“Exquisite beauty resides rather in the female form than face, where it is also more lasting.”
“Beauty and health are the chief sources of happiness.”
Source: The Works: Lothair ; 1
“Beauty can inspire miracles.”
Source: The Young Duke ... By B. Disraeli. A New Edition
“It is impossible that beauty should ever distinctly appreciate itself.”
“We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.”
Source: Observations: Poems
“There is a self-evident axiom, that she who is born a beauty is half married.”
Source: Success and Its Conditions
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“In a world of hunchbacks, a fine figure becomes a monstrosity.”
“Tis the eternal law, That first in beauty should be first in might.”
Source: The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...
“Beauty often fades, but seldom so swiftly as the joy it gives us.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“A queen, devoid of beauty is not queen; She needs the royalty of beauty's mien.”
Source: Poems
“loveliness is infernally sad.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)
“Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.”
Source: Dust tracks on a road
“A pleasing countenance is no slight disadvantage. [Lat., Auxilium non leve vultus habet.]”
Source: Leigh Hunt's London Journal
“Rarely do we meet in one combined, a beauteous body and a virtuous mind.”
Source: The satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius ...
“Rare is the union of beauty and purity. [Lat., Rara est adeo concordia formae Atque pudicitiae.]”
“Beauty, alone, may please, not captivate; if lacking grace, 'tis but a hookless bait.”
“Beauty intoxicates the eye, as wine does the body; both are morally fatal if indulged.”
Source: A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published
Source: Barrow and Newton. Peleus and Thetis. The King of Ava and Rao-Gong-Fao. Photo Zavellas and his sister Kaido. Epicurus, Leontion, and Ternissa. The Empress Catharine and Princess Dashkoff. William Penn and Lord Peterborough. Miguel and mother. Metellus and Marius. Nicolas and Michel. Leofric and Godiva. Izaac Walton, Cotton, and William Oldways
Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria
Source: Literary recreations and miscellanies
“The good is always beautiful, the beautiful is good!”
Source: Poems
Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles