At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.
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.
I believe in a lofty form of poetry, in the work in which beauty will be mingled with beliefs.
The body expresses our very being. The striving for beauty is inborn among the Aryan.
The beauty of the forests of Indiana in the rich and lovely month of May surpasses all description.
Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.
The beauty of nature is a gift, let's cherish and protect it.
I feel like that intellectual but plain-looking lady who was warmly complimented on her beauty.