You are not loved when you are lovely, but when you are loved you are found to be lovely.
Beauty is whatever anyone thinks is beautiful.
And I can't even go to the grocery store without some ones that's clean and a shirt with a team/It seems we living the American dream but people highest up got the lowest self esteem/The prettiest people do the ugliest things for the road to riches and diamond rings.
They assume she was once gorgeously beautiful. Because now she looks so—bad.
Beauty lies in nature and reveals, once the artist has perceived it, its own expressive power.
Maybe one of the most heartening findings from the psychology of pleasure is there's more to looking good than your physical appearance. If you like somebody, they look better to you. This is why spouses in happy marriages tend to think that their husband or wife looks much better than anyone else thinks that they do.
You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.
The French girls would tell you, to believe that you were pretty would make you so.
A flower may be beautiful all on its own, but a person is never truly beautiful unless someone's eyes show him that he is beautiful.
A color which would be 'dirty' if it were the color of a wall, needn't be so in a painting.
She's only pretty in that she has two small black eyes and a good figure.
It's a feeling which tells me that any woman can be beautiful in the eyes of a man who loves her.
To tell a woman who is forty, "You look like sixteen," is boloney. The blarney way of saying it is "Tell me how old you are, I should like to know at what age women are the most beautiful.
At sixteen, I was a funny, skinny little thing, all eyelashes and legs. And then, suddenly people told me it was gorgeous. I thought they had gone mad.
I have perceived much beauty In the hoarse oaths that kept our courage straight; Heard music in the silentness of duty; Found peace where shell-storms spouted reddest spate.
Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.
When you appear on the screen, often enough you become sexy, even if you look like an elephant.
It is strange how a memory will grow into a wax figure, how the cherub grows suspiciously prettier as its frame darkens with age-strange, strange are the mishaps of memory.
But pearls are fair; and the old saying is: Black men are pearls in beauteous ladies' eyes.
Our hearts were drunk with a beauty Our eyes could never see.
There are women who are not beautiful but only look that way.
Now, I don't actually know the exact cut-off age where beautiful ceases and 'must have-once-been-beautiful' begins. It's true it's not forty-five. I can still get attention when I try really hard, even if it's greatly reduced.
The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
That's the point. Every kind of animal thinks its own kind of animal is wonderful. So people getting married think they're wonderful, and that they're going to have a baby-- that's wonderful, when actually they're as ugly as rhinoceroses. Just because we think we're so wonderful doesn't mean we really are. We could be really terrible animals and just never admit it because it would hurt so much.
