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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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That's the beauty of this country — we can have different opinions and coexist and be amused by each other and hurt and offended.

Sarah Jessica Parker

Expressions are many
but Thy loveliness is one;
Each of us refers
to that single Beauty.

Fakhruddin 'Iraqi

Leader Abdullah Öcalan
"Our revolution is a revolution of beauty."

Abdullah Öcalan

Vanquished in life, his death
By beauty made amends:
The passing of his breath
Won his defeated ends.

Lionel Johnson By the Statue of King Charles at Charing Cross (1895)

Give me, instead of beauty's bust,
A tender heart, a loyal mind,
Which with temptation I could trust,
Yet never linked with error find.

George Darley

I breathed a song into the air;
That little song of beauty rare
Is flying still, for all I know,
Around the world by Radio.

Arthur Guiterman The Light Guitar (1923)

Harry Dresden: Hers was a beauty so pure that it was nearly painful to behold--Athena heading out on a Friday night.

Jim Butcher Changes (2010)

Glasses are like a ghost.
The reason I hate glasses so much is because I think the beauty of your eyes is the best thing about people.

Osamu Dazai

Alas! The beauty
of the flowers has faded
and come to nothing,
while I have watched the rain,
lost in melancholy thought.

Ono no Komachi Kokin Wakashū: The First Imperial Anthology of Japanese Poetry (1985)

"Get at least eight hours of beauty sleep, nine if you’re ugly,"

Betty White If You Ask Me (And of Course You Won’t) (2011)

There is wisdom in the everyday beauty of fragile complex beings grappling with contradiction

Pregs Govender

The teacher is still basking in the beauty of his own creativity, when he realises that his only listeners are the walls. ("Two Libraries")

Esther Kreitman Yikhes (1949)

The first laugh I ever got was when I did comedy for the first time at a beauty pageant in graduate school.

Yvonne Anyili Orji

Our main goal is to enhance people’s natural beauty, creating a safe space to ask questions online and encourage people to embrace their unique looks

Ruby Hammer

“The beauty of the online classifieds platform, however, is that it doesn’t require heavy tech, and you can do a lot on it while keeping costs fairly low.”

Tarneem Saeed

True beauty lies in how you affect other people

Rolene Strauss

My environment growing up was very beauty-focused . . . you don't go out looking crazy, you always make sure you look prim and proper.

Ngozi Esther Edeme

The most general definition of beauty ... Multeity in Unity.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge On the Principles of Genial Criticism (1814)

Small farms make economic sense. They also produce more happiness, more beauty, more health—those things that aren’t so quantifiable...

Wendell Berry Caretaking by Wendell Berry and Helena Norberg-Hodge, Orion Magazine (2019)

It is the call of the beauty — robed ones
To worship the great Beauty.
It is the call of God
Through silent intelligences
And starburst of feelings.

Paramahansa Yogananda Songs of the Soul (1923)

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