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The Renaissance6 quotes
Was ever book containing such vile matter
So fairly bound? O, that deceit should dwell
In such a gorgeous palace! — William Shakespeare · 1597Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. — John Donne · 1631No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one autumnal face. — John Donne · 1631If it be true that any beautiful thing raises the pure and just desire of man from earth to God, the eternal fount of all, such I believe my love. — Michelangelo · 1525Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator. — William Shakespeare · 1594Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power,
After offence returning, to regain
Love once possessed. — John Milton · 1671Classical antiquity3 quotes
Beauty is a gift of God. — Aristotle · 240Don't bank too much on your complexion, lovely boy. — Virgil · 37 BCBeauty and wisdom are rarely conjoined. — Gaius Petronius · 66Age of Enlightenment2 quotes
Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them. — David Hume · 1758Beauty's of a fading nature,
Has a season, and is gone! — Robert Burns · 1764