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.
When nature's happiest touch could add no more,
Heaven lent an angel's beauty to her face.
I have always felt that one of the secrets of real beauty is simplicity.
Religious beauty is superior to ideal beauty, since it is the ideal of the ideal.
The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behavior and not appearance.
Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them.
There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
If you get simple beauty and naught else,
You get about the best thing God invents.
Every person is worthy of an infinite wealth of love — the beauty of his soul knows no limit.
The soul, by an instinct stronger than reason, ever associates beauty with truth.