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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.

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"We were drowning in beauty we couldn’t feel"

Hammond Johns The Reactor (2025)

Art taught me patience. Code taught me scale. Both taught me that the best work happens when you refuse to choose between beauty and function.

Patrick Chuka

The African image and beauty has been trashed by Western colonial interventions.

Iké Udé

Beauty is the maximum limit we can access through language. We cannot reach the truth, but we can get close to it through beauty.

Alejandro Jodorowsky Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)

all the light and beauty, all the grandeur and majesty of the universe are unraveled only in the tiny retinas of human beings.

Varadaraja V. Raman

The beauty of the world lies in the diversity of its people. We are so different but I think in some ways we are similar too.

Palesa Molefe

I think writers have a responsibility to hold a mirror up to society. The beauty of writing is the reflection can, and should, come in various forms.

Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond

Every challenge became a chance to learn, every collaboration a reminder of the beauty of a shared vision

Michelle Dee

There is this general perception that models represent beauty, which is very wrong. Is a pregnant woman not beautiful, is a mother of one not beautiful?

Berry Heart

A woman always exaggerates her beauty and its influence when they are past ; and it was a perpetual grief to think what her pretty face might have done for her.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Now I think hydrodynamics is to be the root of all physical science, and is at present second to none in the beauty of its mathematics.

William Thomson

Observe the light and consider its beauty. Blink your eye and look at it. That which you see was not there at first, and that which was there is there no more.

Leonardo da Vinci The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938)

Well fare she, well! As perfect beauty fares;
And those high places, that are beauty's home.

Lionel Johnson

Only beauty purely loving
Knows no discord,
But still moves delight,
Like clear springs renewed by flowing,
Ever perfect, ever in themselves eternal.

Thomas Campion Observations in the Art of English Poesie (1602)

Creation smiles in various beauty gay
While day to night, and night succeeds day

Phillis Wheatley

Beauty least adorned is most adorned

John Lancaster Spalding Aphorisms and Reflections (1901)

When Manmatha kissed Rati, blood from her lips may have spilt on earth and blossomed into rose on the plant and kisses the viewer's eyes with its beauty now!

Kuvempu Poet, nature lover and humanist (2004)

So, Lord, please teach me the the conscience of a child, beauty of his innocence, and the forgiveness of his heart.

Oliver Mbamara

Our editorial mission is to inform readers, but also to engage them with the awe and beauty of the natural world.

Cara Santa Maria Interview with Scientific America (2012)

I also made sure that being a beauty queen didn’t change me at all

Aurore Mutesi Kayiranga

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