Beauty Quotes by William Shakespeare

Truth needs no color; beauty, no pencil.

— William Shakespeare

Beauty within itself should not be wasted.

— William Shakespeare

O Death, made proud with pure and princely beauty!

— William Shakespeare

Let witchcraft join with beauty, lust with both!

— William Shakespeare

Beauty lives with kindness.

— William Shakespeare

Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye.

— William Shakespeare

Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear.

— William Shakespeare

O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults, looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!

— William Shakespeare

“His beauty shall in these black lines be seen, and they shall live, and he in them still green.”

— William Shakespeare

“Truth may seem, but cannot be; Beauty brag, but 'tis not she: Truth and beauty buriéd be.”

— William Shakespeare

“She will outstrip all praise and make it halt behind her.”

— William Shakespeare

“Things growing to themselves are growth's abuse: Seeds spring from seeds and beauty breedeth beauty;”

— William Shakespeare

Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.

— William Shakespeare

A woman moved is like a fountain troubled, Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty.

— William Shakespeare

“How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower?”

— William Shakespeare

“For thee I'll lock up all the gates of love And on my eyelids shall conjecture hang, To turn all beauty into…

— William Shakespeare

Oh, how this spring of love resembleth, The uncertain glory of an April day, Which now shows all beauty of the Sun,…

— William Shakespeare

There's her cousin, an she were not possessed with a fury, exceeds her as much in beauty as the first of May…

— William Shakespeare

To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I ey'd, Such seems your…

— William Shakespeare

For where is any author in the world, Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye? Learning is but an adjunct to ourself.

— William Shakespeare

A blind man can't forget the eyesight he lost, show me any beautiful girl. How can her beauty not remind me of…

— William Shakespeare

“O my love, my wife! Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.”

— William Shakespeare

Show me a mistress that is passing fair, what doth her beauty serve but as a note where I may read who…

— William Shakespeare

Look on beauty, and you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight; which therein works a miracle in Nature, making them lightest…

— William Shakespeare

“Marry, then, sweet wag, when thou art king, let not us that are squires of the night’s body be called thieves of…

— William Shakespeare

To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I eyed, Such seems your…

— William Shakespeare

“What is thy body but a swallowing grave, Seeming to bury that posterity Which, by the rights of time, thou needs must…

— William Shakespeare

“But from thine eyes my knowledge I derive, And, constant stars, in them I read such art, As truth and beauty shall…

— William Shakespeare

“Well, well! Why, have you any discretion? Have you any eyes? Do you know what a man is? Is not birth, beauty,…

— William Shakespeare

“Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend Upon thy self thy beauty's legacy? Nature's bequest gives nothing, but doth lend, And being frank…

— William Shakespeare

Had I no eyes but ears, my ears would love. That inward beauty and invisible; Or were I deaf, thy outward parts…

— William Shakespeare

You lie, in faith; for you are call'd plain Kate, And bonny Kate and sometimes Kate the curst; But Kate, the prettiest…

— William Shakespeare

“Then let not winter's ragged hand deface, In thee thy summer, ere thou be distill'd: Make sweet some vial; treasure thou some…

— William Shakespeare

“In the old age black was not counted fair, Or if it were, it bore not beauty’s name. But now is black…

— William Shakespeare

O Prosperina, For the flowers now that, frighted, thou let'st fall From Dis's wagon; daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and…

— William Shakespeare

“My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips' red; If snow be white, why…

— William Shakespeare

“The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold, That…

— William Shakespeare

Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on.

— William Shakespeare

She's beautiful, and therefore to be woo'd She is a woman, therefore to be won

— William Shakespeare

“Beauty itself doth of itself persuade The eyes of men without orator.”

— William Shakespeare