
“Hard is that heart which beauty makes not soft.”
Crudel, che tal beltà turba e consuma.
Canto IV, stanza 77 (tr. Fairfax)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night III, Line 81.
“Hard is that heart which beauty makes not soft.”
Crudel, che tal beltà turba e consuma.
Canto IV, stanza 77 (tr. Fairfax)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
“Beauty is rarely soft or consolatory. Quite the contrary. Genuine beauty is always quite alarming.”
Source: The Secret History
“It is useless to be young without being beautiful, or beautiful without being young.”
Il ne sert à rien d'être jeune sans être belle, ni d'être belle sans être jeune.
Maxim 497.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“Darkness was a beautiful thing. The kiss of a shadow. A caress as soft as moonlight.”
Source: The Beauty of Darkness
I would not live alway (published 1826), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Creation smiles in various beauty gay
While day to night, and night succeeds day”
Works of Providence from Poems on Various Subjects kindle ebook ASIN B0083ZJ7SU