This is true, at the least, that no veil of beauty hides the evils from our sight.
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.
Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
Fair tresses man's imperial race insnare,
And beauty draws us with a single hair.
To copy beauties, forfeits all pretence
To fame—to copy faults, is want of sense.
Nonsense and beauty have close connections — closer connections than Art will allow.
Even in the harshest places there is still wonder and beauty.
Perfection and imperfection are names which do not differ much from the names beauty and ugliness.