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.
Sure never pain such beauty wore,
Or look’d so amiable before!
Nature made every fop to plague his brother,
Just as one beauty mortifies another.
Gray hair is a crown of beauty when it is found in the way of righteousness.
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
Closer, Changi lost its beauty and became what it was — an obscene forbidding prison.
Beauty is the only uncreated thing you can experience apart from God.
Sudden thy silent beauty on me shone,
Fair as the moon had given thee all her spell.
Every theory is true in some discipline.
The beauty of this is that it carries its own confirmation.