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.
Crime is aye crime, and beauty ne'er can be
A veil to cover its deformity.
Beauty can be a curse. Sometimes, beauty can destroy relationships.
Your beauty shines from within, and your strength will inspire others. You are not alone.
What! have I 'scaped love-letters in the holiday-time of my beauty, and am I now a subject for them?
But the speed was power, and the speed was joy, and the speed was pure beauty.
If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
Riches and Art are spurious receipts for the production of Happiness and Beauty.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder:
Isle of Beauty, fare thee well!
That beauty is not, as fond men misdeem,
An outward shew of things, that only seem.