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.
There was this idea of beautifying pain, facing struggles but still prioritising beauty and care
...as with most redheaded women what beauty she possessed was protean and odd.
I like my philosophy smothered in beauty and not the opposite.
Time is a vindictive bandit to steal the beauty of our former selves.
These preachers of beauty, which light the world with their admonishing smile.
Faith is the champion of grace, and love the nurse; but humility is the beauty of grace.