Beauty

Harvest, oh! harvest your hour While life is abloom with youth! For age with bitter ruth Will fade your beauty’s flower. 4

Sweetheart, come see if the rose Which at morning began to unclose Its damask gown to the sun Has not lost, now the day is done, The folds of its damasked gown And its colors so like your own.

When you are old, at evening candlelit, Beside the fire bending to your wool, Read out my verse and murmur, “Ronsard writ This praise for me when I was beautiful.” 1

That, of al the floures in the mede, Thanne love I most thise floures white and rede, Swiche as men callen daysyes in our toun.

That Paradis stood formed in her yën.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

The good is the beautiful.

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

To love rightly is to love what is orderly and beautiful in an educated and disciplined way.

It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.

Blushing is the color of virtue.

It is godlike ever to think on something beautiful and on something new.

Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

The longing of my heart is a fairy portrait of myself: I want to be pretty; I want to eliminate facts and fill up the gap with charms .

Until I came to New Mexico, I never realized how much beauty water adds to a river .

Distance lends enchantment to the view .

The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.

The eye encompasses the beauty of the whole world.

There are many kinds of beauty as people who possess it.

Make an effort to collect the good features from many beautiful faces.

Painting is concerned with the ten things you can see: these are darkness and brightness, substance and color, form and place, remoteness and near ness, movement and rest.

All the bystanders at an event worthy of note adopt various gestures of admiration when contemplating the occurrence.

A luminous body will appear more brilliant in proportion as it is surrounded by deeper shadow.