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.
Without an allegiance to beauty, art degenerates into a caricature of itself.
Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
And what is there else but pleasure, and to what else does beauty move on?
A woman's exterior beauty is a reflection of her internal peace and happiness.
It is thought that women inspire by their beauty; more often they do so by their longings.
Health is beauty, and the most perfect health is the most perfect beauty.
Perfect health, like perfect beauty, is a rare thing; and so, it seems, is perfect disease.
What beauty can compare to that of a cantina in the early morning?