Beauty Quotes by Joseph Addison

Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.

— Joseph Addison

How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue!

— Joseph Addison

Among the several kinds of beauty, the eye takes most delight in colors.

— Joseph Addison

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

— Joseph Addison

The head has the most beautiful appearance, as well as the highest station, in a human figure.

— Joseph Addison

It must be a prospect pleasing to God Himself to see His creation forever beautifying in His eyes, and drawing nearer Him…

— Joseph Addison

Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature.

— Joseph Addison

The lives of great men cannot be writ with any tolerable degree of elegance or exactness within a short time after their…

— Joseph Addison

A virtuous mind in a fair body is indeed a fine picture in a good light, and therefore it is no wonder…

— Joseph Addison

I think I may define taste to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure,…

— Joseph Addison

The very first discovery of beauty strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all its…

— Joseph Addison

A cheerful temper, joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured.

— Joseph Addison

“But there is nothing that makes its way more directly to the Soul than Beauty, which immediately diffuses a secret satisfaction and…

— Joseph Addison

Beauty commonly produces love, but cleanliness preserves it. Age itself is not unamiable while it is preserved clean and unsullied; like a…

— Joseph Addison

I do not propose to our British ladies, that they should turn Amazons in the service of their sovereign, nor so much…

— Joseph Addison

There is sometimes a greater judgement shewn in deviating from the rules of art, than in adhering to them; and?there ismore beauty…

— Joseph Addison

Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double…

— Joseph Addison

It is impossible for authors to discover beauties in one another's works; they have eyes only for spots and blemishes.

— Joseph Addison

Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than…

— Joseph Addison

Loveliest of women! heaven is in thy soul, Beauty and virtue shine forever round thee, Bright'ning each other! thou art all divine!

— Joseph Addison