Beauty (also called prettiness, loveliness or comeliness) is a characteristic of a person, animal, place, object, or idea that provides a perceptual experience of pleasure or satisfaction. Beauty is studied as part of aesthetics, sociology, social psychology, and culture. An "ideal beauty" is an entity which is admired, or possesses features widely attributed to beauty in a particular culture, for perfection.
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- Beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table ,
- Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due -- she reminds us too much of a prima donna. ,
- There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable. ,
- Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first. ,
- Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom. ,
- Beauty in not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. ,
- Beauty is the pilot of the young soul. ,
- Trust not too much to an enchanting face. ,
- The beauty seen, is partly in him who sees it. ,
- A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.