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.
For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.
Without beauty, love, or danger it would be almost easy to live.
Thy grace, thy more than beauty,
Shall be an endless theme of praise,
And love — a simple duty.
"Allah is Beautiful and loves beauty. Pride means to renounce the truth and abase people."
You say that in heaven there is eternal beauty. The eternal beauty is here and now, not in heaven.
I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty;
I woke, and found that life was duty.
Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape
Who dost in every country change thy shape!