Models of manly beauty are rare out of novels, and seldom interesting in them.
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.
Darvin listened to the hymn with a mixture of enjoyment of its beauty and disdain of its content.
All farms are much alike everywhere, and all wild places have their own beauty.
An artist cannot be partially sincere any more than art can be an approximation of beauty.
The country is crazy with barrenness, and the sea mocks it with its terrible beauty.
When they talk to me about beauty, Naples comes to mind as the first image.
The youth will love agriculture because it goes hand in hand with beauty.
"All of us contribute to that beauty of the world, and there is no one standard for beauty."
I love that you can experience all that beauty and relax without leaving the country.
The real beauty is just being yourself—the good and the bad.