William Shakespeare Quotes about Beauty
1609 Sonnets, sonnet 104.
She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won.
'Henry VI, Part 1' (1592) act 5, sc. 3, l. 78.
William Shakespeare (1793). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators. To which are Added Notes”, p.210
'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 23
'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [316]
Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on.
'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. [257]
William Shakespeare (1773). “The Plays of William Shakespeare. In Ten Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; to which are Added Notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. With an Appendix..”, p.138
1596-7 Bassanio, aside.TheMerchant ofVenice, act 3, sc.2, l.88-91.
For where is any author in the world Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye?
William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.93
Were beauty under twenty locks kept fast, yet love breaks through and picks them all at last.
William Shakespeare (2006). “The Poems: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Phoenix and the Turtle, The Passionate Pilgrim, A Lover's Complaint”, p.117, Cambridge University Press
The most peerless piece of earth, I think, that e' er the sun shone bright on.
William Shakespeare, John Pitcher (2010). “The Winter's Tale: Third Series”, p.318, A&C Black
Beauty itself doth of itself persuade the eyes of men without an orator.
'The Rape Of Lucrece' (1594) l. 29
Virtue is beauty, but the beauteous evil. Are empty trunks o'erflourished by the devil.
William Shakespeare (2016). “Twelfth Night”, p.68, Penguin
William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.940
