Too little is it considered, while we gaze on aristocratic beauty, how much good food, soft lying, warm wrapping, ease of mind, have to do with the attractions which command our admiration.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.
Do we have to be rail thin to possess 'outer beauty' and sex appeal and to be capable of attracting lovers?
It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.
If we were living in ancient Rome or Greece, I would be considered sickly and unattractive. The times dictate that thin is better for some strange reason, which I think is foolish.
Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.
Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.