La beauté n'est que la promesse du bonheur.
Source: De L'Amour (On Love) (1822), Ch. 17, footnote
La beauté n'est que la promesse du bonheur.
De L'Amour (On Love) (1822)
Source: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 2, “The Voyage Out” (p. 85)
“Beauty is the promise of happiness.”
Actually by Stendhal: "La beauté n'est que la promesse du bonheur" (Beauty is no more than the promise of happiness), in De L'Amour (1822), chapter 17
Misattributed
Only a Promise of Happiness: The Place of Beauty in a World of Art (2010), p. 138.
Source: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Business_In_Simple_Language/aiXfDwAAQBAJ
“It was a light, brief kiss, but it was less an ending than a promise, and he was happy.”
Source: Dream Park (1981), Chapter 31, “Departures” (p. 429)
“There is nothing more beautiful than a beautiful woman.”
Agnelli: The Rules of the Game, Vanity Fair (1991)
“Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.”
Source: The Immoralist
http://books.google.com/books?id=cI1KAAAAMAAJ&q=%22There+are+of+course+good+happy+endings+as+well+as+bad+ones+but+surely+they+are+of+a+kind+that+in+some+way+expresses+happiness+rather+than+glibly+promises+it%22&pg=PA74#v=onepage
The Cart and the Horse (1964)
Source: The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
