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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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I had a chance to meet other beauty queens from different countries and I made new friends

Liliane Iradukunda

Waking today
just before winter
when I try to name the color of grasses,
how I feel their beauty,
there is no word.

Linda Hogan Rounding the Human Corners (2008)

That's the beauty of the Democratic Party: they support the Nazis in Ukraine, but they call me a fascist because I went to Casapound.

Nicolai Lilin

Beauty is the combination of mind, body, soul, the desire to be your best and bring out the best in others

Margaret Gardiner

A person of colour was not a typical beauty.

Janelle "Penny" Commissiong

You are allowed to feel good. You are allowed to enjoy beauty. You are allowed to be seen.

Ruby Hammer

They brought me back to enjoying every moment, seeing its beauty and embracing everything as an adventure

Rolene Strauss

Beneath the surface of formless matter is the firm ideal structure of a rebirth that has, in the city of God, its model of beauty and light.

Giorgio La Pira

I’ve turned all of those tools of oppression into beauty and art.

Mamela Nyamza

I aim to challenge traditional ideas of beauty and societal expectations, offering a contemporary view of African femininity

Deborah Segun

Maud Muller, on a summer's day,
Raked the meadows sweet with hay.
Beneath her torn hat glowed the wealth
Of simple beauty and rustic health.

John Greenleaf Whittier Maud Muller (1856)

I know the first film I ever saw — it must have been some time in 1924, when I was six or so... was Black Beauty.

Ingmar Bergman Bergman on Bergman (1970)

No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night.
No time to turn at Beauty's glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance.

William Henry Davies

My works are not just rhetorical, except in the sense that all art is rhetorical. I believe in beauty.

Gerhard Richter Gerhard Richter: An Artist Beyond Isms (2002)

It happened; it is part of who we are; it is our beauty and our terror. We must be gleaners from what life has set before us.

Elizabeth Alexander

In life, we lose more than we win. But even in loss, there’s dignity. Even in doubt, there’s beauty.

Michelle Dee

I’m attracted to all forms of beauty, all shapes and sizes

Michelle Dee

I want to keep saying the kinds of things that provoke thought and reflection in my readers. I want to create beauty and grace on the page and off the page.

Tade Ipadeola

It is not Beauty I demand,
A crystal brow, the moon's despair,
Nor the snow's daughter, a white hand,
Nor mermaid's yellow pride of hair.

George Darley

But who e'er turned from beauty's ray
For fear of future shade;
Or who e'er flung a rose away
Because that rose might fade.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon The Vow of the Peacock (1835)

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