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.
What indeed is more beautiful than heaven, which of course contains all things of beauty.
Thought and beauty, like a hurricane or waves, should not know conventional, delimited forms.
For beauty being the best of all we know
Sums up the unsearchable and secret aims
Of nature.
What shall we do, what shall we do with all this useless beauty?
Nor virtue, wit, or beauty, could
Preserve from death's hand this their heav'nly mould.
Her body Beauty's best-esteemèd bower,
Delicious, comely, dainty, without stain.
When you think of make-up more than a beauty tool, you will realise its true potential.
Over time, I’ve come to understand that beauty is a light that comes from the soul.
They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder but some still look ridiculous.
Beauty is relative and a confident woman would be self-assured on all levels.