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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.
The beauty of a move lies not in its appearance but in the thought behind it.
A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
The beauty of a naked body is felt only by the dressed races.
Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
“You may like it, you may not, but you’ll have to endure it, my beauty.”
Beauty takes us to a space that is ineffable, a place of secrets.
To have beauty is to have only that,
but to have goodness
is to be beautiful
too.
Strength and beauty are the blessings of youth; temperance, however, is the flower of old age.