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. Hail wedded love, mysterious law, true source of human offspring. (Paradise Lost 4-750)

  2. Happiness is the shadow of thing past. (Paradise Lost 4-299)

  3. He for God only. She for God in him. (Paradise Lost 4-299)

  4. He was not of an age, but for all time. (Ben Jonson)

  5. He wears the rose of youth upon him. (Antony & Cleopatra 3 : 11 : 20)

  6. He, who will not when he may, may not when he will. (John of Salisbury)

  7. Heaven lies about us in our infancy. (Wordsworth)

  8. Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter. (Keats)

  9. Heaven is our heritage, Earth but a player's stage. (Thomas Nashe)

  10. A heaven on earth. (Paradise Lost 4-208)

  11. The heart is not a clock, it will not wind again. (Sacheverell Sitwell)

  12. Hector is dead. There is no more to say. (Troilus & Cressida 5-10-22)

  13. Hills whose heads touch heaven. (Othello 1 : 3: 141)

  14. Him first, him last, him midst, and without end. (Paradise Lost 5-165)

  15. His time is forever, everywhere his place. (Abraham Cowley)

  16. An honest man's the noble work of God.

  17. Honest labour bears a lovely face. (Thomas Dekker)

  18. How noiseless falls the foot of time. (W. R. Spencer)

  19. Hypocrisy in the homage that vice offers to virtue. (La Rochefaocauld)

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