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. Faint heart wins not lady fair. (William James Linton)
   
   
2. The fairest things have the fleetest end. (F. Thomson)
   
   
3. Faith is love taking the form of aspiration. (William Ellery Channing)
   
   
4. Fame is food that dead men eat. (A. Dopson)
   
   
5. A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. (Winston Churchill)
   
   
6. Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, Dead perfection, no more. (Tennyson)
   
   
7. The fault's not in the object, but their eyes. (Ben Jonson in Authorem)
   
   
8. And feel that I am happier than I Know. (Paradise Lost 8-282)
   
   
9. For every why, he had a wherefore. (Samuel Butler)
   
   
10. For her own person, It beggar'd all description. (Antony and Cleopatra : 2-2-199)
    
    
11. For love is lust and life is a dream of death. (James Elroy Flecker)
    
    
12. For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever. (Tennyson. The Brook. St. 6)
    
    
13. For who would bear the whips and scorns of time. (Hamlet 3:1:70)
    
    
14. Friends are born, not made. (Hendry Brooks Adams)
    
    
15. From softness only softness comes. (Marcus Curtius)