Beauty Lies In The Eye Of The Beholder

Classic Beauty Quotes

We all know that a thing of beauty is a joy forever and that beauty lies in the eye of the beholder. Isn't it interesting how the perception of beauty changes from person to person. Here is a collection of beauty quotes of famous classic writers and poets. If you want me to include your favorite beauty quote on this blog, please add a comment



A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
John Keats

In youth and beauty wisdom is but rare!
Alexander Pope


Give me the splendid silent sun, with all his beams full-dazzling!
Walt Whitman

If eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Fair tresses man's imperial race insnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair.
Alexander Pope

Beauty is truth, truth beauty - that is all, Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
John Keats

If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them all.
Alexander Pope

I would define, in brief, the Poetry of words as the Rhythmical Creation of Beauty. Its sole arbiter is Taste.
Edgar Allan Poe

True beauty dwells in deep retreats, Whose veil is unremoved, Till heart with heart in concord beats, And the lover is beloved.
William Wordsworth

Lo! the moon ascending! Up from the East, the silvery round moon; Beautiful over the house-tops, ghastly, phantom moon; Immense and silent moon.
Walt Whitman

A fool there was and he made his prayer, (Even as you and I), To a rag and a bone and a hank of hair, (We called her the woman who did not care), But the fool he called her his lady fair.
Rudyard Kipling


I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things, Had left their beauty on the shore, With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar.
Ralph Waldo Emerson 


I've never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful.
Author Unknown