Beauty Quote by Robert Herrick

A red rose peeping through a white? Or else a cherry (double graced) Within a lily? Centre placed? Or ever marked the pretty beam,…

— Ovid

“Rose petals.” Katharine swept her arm toward a huddle of stalls farther up the street. “Can you see the sacks? They’re full of dried…

— Lindsay Jayne Ashford

“There was something rather blousy about roses in full bloom, something shallow and raucous, like women with untidy hair”

— Daphne du Maurier

“That which we call a rose      By any other name would smell as sweet;”

— William Shakespeare

“When you look at a rose try to focus on its beauty, not its thorns.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

And the rose like a nymph to the bath addrest, Which unveiled the depth of her glowing breast, Till, fold after fold, to the…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“When are you going to get a fella?" Lily asks Rose after a year or two of dancing. "I have one who wants to…

— Genevieve Valentine

“the brilliance of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not lessen the perfume of the violet or the sweet simplicity of…

— Thérèse de Lisieux

“ The Lilly in a Christal You have beheld a smiling Rose When Virgins hands have drawn O’r it a Cobweb-Lawne: And here, you…

— Robert Herrick

“A rose for all its beauty still has a thorn”

— Ken Maxon

“There is not only one measure of beauty, Lanore. Everyone adores the red rose, and yet it is a common sort of beauty. You…

— Alma Katsu

“Under an orchard tree, dropping with cherries, cowgirls lay in the shade. They fed each other fruit. Dark juice dribbled into dimples. Cherry meat…

— Tom Robbins