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Beauty

Elegance, splendor, attractiveness, appeal

QUOTES

Beauty is no quality in things themselves. It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them.
 David Hume
 Of The Standard of Taste, 1757

The best and most beautiful things in the world canot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
 Helen Keller
 1902

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
 John Donne
 Elegies, 1595

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.
 Jacqueline Bisset
 

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
 Ralph Waldo Emerson
 The Conduct of Life, 1860

Oh, no, it wasn’t the airplanes. It was beauty killed the beast.
 
 King Kong (movie), 1933

See Also

References

History
  • Helen of Troy, the face that launched a thousand ships

    Arts & Science

  • Movies: King Kong

    Literature

  • Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray
  • Thomas Mann: Death in Venice
  • Aesop: The Fox and the Crow, Juno and the Peacock




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