English for Students

Beautiful Expressions

Beautiful Expressions Index


There are innumerable beautiful expressions in English. A thing of beauty is a joy for ever is one of the immortal lines of the great poet Keats.

The Beauty is ultimate reality is another immortal lines but of Tagore. The English language abounds in such beautiful expressions which bring us immense joy. Happy turns of phrases, striking imageries, peculiar styles, semantically interesting structures and memorable phrases are added in this page.

Here are few of those immortal lines and beautiful expressions.

1. Adventure is the champagne of life. (G. K. Chesterton)
   
   
2. Adversity's sweet milk is philosophy. (Romeo and Juliet 3: 3: 55)
   
   
3. All do not all things well. (Thomas Champion)
   
   
4. All experience is an arch to build upon. (Henry Brooks Adams)
   
   
5. All is at once sunk in their whirl-pool death. (Donne)
   
   
6. All things to end are made. (Thomas Nashe)
   
   
7. The almighty dollar is the only object of worship. (Anon)
   
   
8. Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. (Julius Caesar 3:2:97)
   
   
9. And death shall be no more. death, thou shalt die. (Donne)
   
   
10. And justify the ways of God of men. (Paradise Lost 1 – 22)
    
    
11. And nature must obey necessity. (Julius Caesar 4:3:225)
    
    
12. And purer than the purest gold. (Ben Jonson : The Touchstone of Truth)
    
    
13. Apt words have power to suage the tumors of a troubled mind. (Milton Samson 1.184)
    
    
14. Art is man added to nature. (Bacon)
    
    
15. Art lies in concealing art. (Latin Proverb)
    
    
16. As good luck would have it. (Merry Wives 3: 5: 86)
    
    
17. Atheism is a theoretical formulation of the discouraged life. (Hendry Emerson Fosdick)
    
    
18. Awake, arise or be forever fallen. (Paradise Lost 1 - 330)
    
    
19. A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother. (Mark Twain)