Beauty
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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Famous quotes containing the word beauty:
“No beauty she doth miss,
When all her robes are on;
But Beauty’s self she is,
When all her robes are gone.”
—Unknown. My Love in Her Attire (l. 5–8)
“Could beauty be caught and hurt
they had done her to death with their sneers
in ages and ages past....”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
“Why is it forbidden in New York to acknowledge the charm and beauty of Los Angeles?”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)