Beauty Quote by William Shakespeare

you saw her fair, none else being by, Herself pois'd with herself in either eye; But in that crystal scales let there be weigh'd…

— William Shakespeare

The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct ratio to the swiftness of our passage.

— Marcel Proust

So, when my mistress shall beseen In form and beauty of her mind, By virtue first, then choice, a queen,

— Sir Henry Wotton

“Faire Ladies, that to loue captiued arre, And chaste desires do nourish in your mind, Let not her fault your sweet affections marre, Ne…

— Edmund Spenser

The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.

— Marcel Proust

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

— William Shakespeare

Sometimes the character of the mistress is inferred from the dress of her maids.

— St. Jerome

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

— William Shakespeare

Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane...

— Alexander Pushkin

“She carried herself like a queen,: gracefully, regal, and dignified. She was all woman and every inch a lady, and he had never seen…

— Elaine Coffman

“[...] we will leave this place, and go into other lodgings - you as the mistress; and I as the maid." "I should be…

— Wilkie Collins

“And yonder sits a maiden, The fairest of the fair, With gold in her garment glittering, And she combs her golden hair.”

— Heinrich Heine