Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Beauty doth varnish age, as if new-born, / And gives the crutch the cradle's infancy. / O, 'tis the sun that maketh all things shine. Love's L's. Lost, iv. 3.

Beauty draws us with a single hair. Pope.

Beauty is a good letter of introduction. Ger. Pr.

Beauty is a hovering, shining, shadowy form, the outline of which no definition holds. Goethe.

Beauty is an all-pervading presence. Channing. 25

Beauty is a patent of nobility. G. Schwab.

Beauty is as summer fruits, which are easy to corrupt and cannot last. Bacon.

Beauty is a witch, / Against whose charms faith melteth into blood. Much Ado, ii. 1.

Beauty is bought by judgment of the eye, / Not utter'd by base sale of chapmen's tongues. Love's L's. Lost, ii. 1.

Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good. 30 Shakespeare.