To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive. Jul 08, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The architect should strive continually to simplify the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty. Jul 08, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison. Jul 08, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity. Jul 08, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness. Jul 08, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty. Jul 08, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance. Jul 08, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Beauty is an ecstasy it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all. Jul 08, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy. Jul 08, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty. Jul 08, 2024 - Fabian Biese>