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.
I look at things for the art sake and the beauty sake and for the deal sake.
Faith goes out of the window when beauty comes in at the door.
A handsome man guards his image a while;
a good man will one day take on beauty.
Is Beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
I am partial to the pantheism of Shelley. There is beauty everywhere.
Life is a love affair. There is a romance with every beauty of nature.
Their hearts swelled with its beauty, its mystery. With all it revealed, and all that it hid.
Beauty comes, we scarce know how, as an emanation from sources deeper than itself.
Just as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, leadership is in the eyes of the led.
Wayward beauty doth not fancy move,
A frown forbids, a smile engendereth love.