Grace was in her steps, heav’n in her eye,
In every gesture dignity and love.
~ Milton
Her eyes, her lips, her cheeks, her shapes, her features,
Seem to be drawn by love’s own hand; by love
Himself in love.
~ Dryden
Beauty is truth, truth beauty – that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
~ Keats
Without the smile from partial beauty won,
O, what were man! a world without a sun!
~ Campbell
Honesty coupled to beauty, is to have honey sauce to sugar.
~ Shakespeare
What is beauty? Not the show
Of shapely limbs and features. No;
These are but flowers
That have their dated hours,
To breathe their momentary sweets and go.
‘Tis the stainless soul within
That outshines the fairest skin.
~ Sir A. Hunt

John William Godward (English, 1861–1922)