She said she had learnt one thing from Balzac: that a woman’s beauty is a treasure beyond price.
Beauty Quotes
Shakespeare, Milton and Emerson sit at the top, and Letitia Elizabeth Landon, a poet far less read now than in the 1820s, has a surprising number of entries. Emerson’s Nature (1836) supplies the best-sourced line, that beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue. Coleridge’s Christabel (1797) and Emerson’s poem on the rhodora are the pieces to read in full.
Three lines carry flags. “Beauty is the promise of happiness” is credited to Edmund Burke and marked misattributed. A couplet about beauty’s fading nature having a season is credited to Robert Burns and disputed. “We all have a weakness for beauty” is credited to Albert Camus, also disputed.
It is our sacred duty to give the new generation a safe, happy, beautiful and prosperous Bangladesh.
Beauty is but the cloak of happiness. Where joy tarries, there also is beauty.
The more we narrow the definition of beauty, the more beauty we shut out of our lives.
Wit can be beautiful, because it expresses and distils an idea.