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Quotes Of Shakespeare On Beauty

Shakespeare’s works are full of beautiful quotes that describe beauty in various forms. Here are the top 99 quotes of Shakespeare on beauty:

1. “Beauty itself doth of itself persuade, The eyes of men without an orator.” – The Rape of Lucrece
2. “Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.” – As You Like It
3. “O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope’s ear.” – Romeo and Juliet
4. “Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety; other women cloy The appetites they feed, but she makes hungry Where most she satisfies.” – Antony and Cleopatra
5. “She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies.” – Don Juan
6. “What is aught but as ’tis valued?” – Troilus and Cressida
7. “Fair is foul, and foul is fair.” – Macbeth
8. “But love is blind, and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit.” – The Merchant of Venice
9. “The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem For that sweet odour which doth in it live.” – Sonnet 54
10. “The very firstlings of my heart shall be The firstlings of my hand.” – Macbeth
11. “I would not wish Any companion in the world but you, Nor can imagination form a shape Besides yourself to like of.” – The Tempest
12. “Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; A shining gloss that vadeth suddenly; A flower that dies when first it ‘gins to bud; A brittle glass that’s broken presently.” – The Passionate Pilgrim
13. “Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.” – Sonnet 116
14. “I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks.” – Sonnet 130
15. “Beauty is a witch Against whose charms faith melteth into blood.” – King Lear
16. “A thing of beauty is a joy forever.” – Endymion
17. “She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight.” – She Was a Phantom of Delight
18. “If music be the food of love, play on.” – Twelfth Night
19. “I am a man more sinned against than sinning.” – King Lear
20. “Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds.” – Sonnet 116
21. “There’s small choice in rotten apples.” – The Taming of the Shrew
22. “When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.” – Arrigo Boito
23. “Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.” – A Midsummer Night’s Dream
24. “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun.” – Sonnet 130
25. “What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god!” – Hamlet
26. “I love you more than words can wield the matter, Dearer than eyesight, space and liberty.” – King Lear
27. “Cupid is a knavish lad, Thus to make females mad.” – A Midsummer Night’s Dream
28. “My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.” – Romeo and Juliet
29. “All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts.” – As You Like It
30. “The course of true love never did run smooth.” – A Midsummer Night’s Dream
31. “Parting is such sweet sorrow.” – Romeo and Juliet
32. “We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.” – The Tempest
33. “I like this place and willingly could waste my time in it.” – As You Like It
34. “I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks.” – Twelfth Night
35. “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings.” – Julius Caesar
36. “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” – Hamlet
37. “All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts.” – As You Like It
38. “The better part of valor is discretion.” – Henry IV, Part I
39. “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” – Hamlet
40. “To be, or not to be, that is the question.” – Hamlet
41. “No legacy is so rich as honesty.” – All’s Well That Ends Well
42. “To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.” – Hamlet
43. “There is nothing so common as the desire to be remarkable.” – Shakespeare
44. “The lady doth protest too much, methinks.” – Hamlet
45. “The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.” – Hamlet
46. “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.” – Romeo and Juliet
47. “I am not bound to please thee with my answers.” – The Merchant of Venice
48. “Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.” – Henry IV, Part II
49. “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” – All’s Well That Ends Well
50. “The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.” – Measure for Measure
51. “The earth has music for those who listen.” – The Merchant of Venice
52. “There is no darkness but ignorance.” – The Twelfth Night
53. “The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.” – All’s Well That Ends Well
54. “If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?” – The Merchant of Venice
55. “The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.” – The Merchant of Venice
56. “There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.” – Macbeth
57. “All that glitters is not gold.” – The Merchant of Venice
58. “The quality of mercy is not strained.” – The Merchant of Venice
59. “Brevity is the soul of wit.” – Hamlet
60. “What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty!”