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.
Beauty, alone, may please, not captivate;
If lacking grace, ’tis but a hookless bait.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.
To know the love and beauty never known before,
I'll leave it up to you to show it.
Nobody wants a girl whose beauty is imperceptible to all but him...
The beauty of nature lies in detail; the message, in generality.
Give beauty back, beauty, beauty, beauty, back to God, beauty's self and beauty's giver.
Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it did not matter.
What magic shall solve us the secret
Of beauty that’s born for an hour?
Beauty vanishes like a vapor,
Preach the men of musty morals.
When summer gathers up her robes of glory,
And, like a dream of beauty, glides away.