Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator.
William Shakespeare on Beauty
1564–1616 England
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I see how thine eye would emulate the diamond: thou hast the right archèd beauty of the brow.
Nothing teems
But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burs,
Losing both beauty and utility.
Henry V (1599)
O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem
By that sweet ornament which truth doth give!
Sonnets (1609)
For where is any author in the world
Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye?
Othello (1603)
'Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white
Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on.
Beauty is brought by judgment of the eye,
Not utter'd by base sale of chapmen's tongues.
Say that she frown; I'll say she looks as clear
As morning roses newly wash'd with dew.
Beauty is a witch,
Against whose charms faith melteth into blood.
Her beauty makes
This vault a feasting presence full of light.
Romeo and Juliet (1597)
For her own person,
It beggar'd all description.
What! have I 'scaped love-letters in the holiday-time of my beauty, and am I now a subject for them?
They look into the beauty of thy mind,
And that, in guess, they measure by thy deeds.
Of Nature's gifts thou may'st with lilies boast
And with the half-blown rose.
King John (1598)
He hath a daily beauty in his life.
Othello (1603)
Henry VIII (1613)
Romeo and Juliet (1597)
Romeo and Juliet (1597)
Attribution
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