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.
You have to change your eye to look for beauty all the time.
Outer beauty is good for greetings but inner beauty is good for sustainability.
The beauty of just soaking time in, enjoying your process and growing gradually.
To have 12 kids and always be happy, while working and taking care of us – that’s real beauty.
That dire disease, whose ruthless power
Withers the beauty's transient flower.
I love the whirling of the dervishes.
I love the beauty of rare innocence.
There, all is order and beauty only,
Splendor, peace, and pleasure.
Ah, ah, thy beauty! like a beast it bites,
Stings like an adder, like an arrow smites.