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.
Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.
Lovely forms do flow
From conceit divinely framed;
Heaven is music, and thy beauty's
Birth is heavenly.
Every virtue is a participation in the Beauty of the One and a response to His Love.
The beauty of behaviour consists in the manner more than the matter of your discourse.
The beauty of mathematics often makes the subject matter much more attractive and easier to master.
The bodily strength, the fierceness and beauty of young women.
Those three divine attributes of a perfect woman: goodness, beauty and wealth.
To be with child does not diminish beauty, but changes the shape of beauty.
It is a matter of harmonizing these movements, thus arriving at a new possibility for beauty.