Tan, Paul Lee: Encyclopedia of 7700
Illustrations : A Treasury of Illustrations, Anecdotes, Facts and
Quotations for Pastors, Teachers and Christian Workers. Garland
TX : Bible Communications, 1996, c1979
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary of
Quotations
Beauty
There is no excellent beauty that hath not
some strangeness in the proportion.
—Francis
Bacon,
Essays
If you get simple beauty and nought else,
You get about the best thing God invents.
—Robert
Browning, “Fra
Lippo Lippi”
She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes.
—Lord
Byron, “She
Walks in Beauty”
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
—Margaret
Wolfe Hungerford,
Molly Bawn
[The idea is an old one, having been used
earlier by Shakespeare, Franklin, and Thoreau among others.
However Hungerford was the first, apparently, to phrase the
notion in such enduring words.]
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,”—that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
—John
Keats, “Ode on
a Grecian Urn”
A thing of beauty is a joy forever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness.
—John
Keats,
Endymion
Beauty is everlasting
And dust is for a time.
—Marianne
Moore, “In
Distrust of Merits”
Remember that the most beautiful things in
the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for
instance. —John
Ruskin,
The Stones of Venice
What is beautiful is good, and who is good
will soon also be beautiful. —Sappho
(fragment)
Beauty is all very well at first sight, but
who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
—George
Bernard Shaw,
Man and
Superman
Beauty is momentary in the mind—
The fitful tracing of a portal;
But in the flesh it is immortal.
The body dies; the body’s beauty lives.
—Wallace
Stevens,
“Peter Quince at the Clavier”
I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of innuendoes,
The blackbird whistling
Or just after.
—Wallace
Stevens,
“Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”
Beauty more than bitterness
Makes the heart break.
—Sara
Teasdale,
“Vignettes Overseas: Capri”
The perception of beauty is a moral test.
—Henry
David Thoreau,
Journal
It is amazing how complete is the delusion
that beauty is goodness. —Leo
Tolstoy,
The Kreutzer Sonata
The beauty of the world has two edges, one of
laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
—Virginia
Woolf,
A Room of One’s Own
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New American Standard
Updated Edition Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible
BEAUTY
your brother, for glory and for
beauty. Ex
28:2 8597
for them, for glory and for
beauty. Ex
28:40 8597
“Your
beauty,
O Israel, is slain on 2Sa
1:19 6643a
beauty
to the people and the princes, Es
1:11 3308
life, To behold the
beauty
of the Lord
And Ps 27:4 5278
Then the King will desire your
beauty. Ps
45:11 3308
Out of Zion, the perfection of
beauty, Ps
50:2 3308
and
beauty are in His
sanctuary. Ps 96:6 8597
present you with a crown of
beauty.” Pr
4:9 8597
Do not desire her
beauty
in your heart, Pr 6:25 3308
Charm is deceitful and
beauty
is vain, Pr 31:30 3308
take away the
beauty
of their
anklets, Is 3:18 8597
And branding instead of
beauty. Is
3:24 3308
And Babylon, the
beauty
of kingdoms, Is 13:19 6643a
it, to defile the pride of all
beauty, Is
23:9 6643a
fading flower of its glorious
beauty, Is
28:1 6643a
fading flower of its glorious
beauty, Is
28:4 6643a
eyes will see the King in His
beauty; Is
33:17 3308
form of a man, like the
beauty
of man, Is 44:13 8597
of
beauty in the hand of
the Lord, Is
62:3 8597
‘The perfection of
beauty, La
2:15 3308
the
beauty of His
ornaments into pride, Ezk
7:20 6643a
the nations on account of your
beauty, Ezk
16:14 3308
“But you trusted in your
beauty
and Ezk 16:15 3308
and made your
beauty
abominable, Ezk 16:25 3308
‘I am perfect in
beauty.’ Ezk
27:3 3308
builders have perfected your
beauty. Ezk
27:4 3308
they perfected your
beauty. Ezk
27:11 3308
swords Against the
beauty
of your wisdom Ezk
28:7 3308
Full of wisdom and perfect in
beauty. Ezk
28:12 3308
was lifted up because of your
beauty; Ezk
28:17 3308
could compare with it in its
beauty. Ezk
31:8 3308
‘Whom do you surpass in
beauty? Ezk
32:19 5276
his
beauty will be like
the olive tree And Hos
14:6 1935
comeliness and
beauty
will be
theirs! Zch 9:17 3308
and the
beauty
of its appearance is Jas
1:11 2143
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