“It is one of the arts of a great beauty to heighten the effect of her charms by affecting to be sweetly unconscious of them.” ArtBeautyEffectsCharmUnconscious Author:Christian Nestell Bovee
“If the contemplation, even of inanimate beauty, is so delightful; if it ravishes the senses, even when the fair form is foreign tous: What must be the effects of moral beauty? And what influence must it have, when it embellishes our own mind, and is the result of our own reflection and industry?” IfsMindFormResultsBeautyMoralInfluenceEffectsIndustryMoralityReflectionFairsSensesContemplationDelightful Author:David Hume
“When beauty is universal, it loses its power to move the heart, and only its absence can produce any emotional effect.” HeartMovingLosesBeautyEffectsProduceEmotionalUniversalAbsence Book:The City and the Stars Source: The City and the Stars
“She had been dragged in the most humiliating of all dusts, the dust reserved for older women who let themselves be approached, on amorous lines, by boys... It had all been pure vanity, all just a wish, in these waning days of hers, still to feel power, still to have the assurance of her beauty and its effects.” FeelsStillsWishLinesBeautyBoysEffectsPureDustVanityAssuranceReservedHumiliatingHer BeautyOlder WomenAmorous Author:Elizabeth von Arnim
“Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression women can make on them.” MenFeelsBeautyEffectsRateImpressionStrongestPassionate Love Book:Love Source: Love
“All the effects of Nature are only the mathematical consequences of a small number of immutable laws.” ArtLawScienceNatureNumbersBeautyEffectsConsequenceMathematicsMathematicalAestheticScholarSmall Numbers Author:Pierre-Simon Laplace
“I am definitely going to watch the Emmys this year! My makeup team is nominated for “Best Special Effects.”” YearsBeautyWatchesTeamSpecialEffectsMakeupPlastic SurgerySpecial EffectsEmmys Author:Joan Rivers
“Even the handsomest men do not have the same momentary effect on the world as a truly beautiful woman does.” MenWorldDoeBeautifulBeautyEffectsBeautiful WomenMomentary Author:Jonathan Carroll
“If we analyze the operations of scenes of beauty upon the mind, and consider the intimate relation of the mind upon the nervous system and the whole physical economy, the action and reaction which constantly occur between bodily and mental conditions, the reinvigoration which results from such scenes is readily comprehended. . . . The enjoyment of scenery employs the mind without fatigue and yet exercises it; tranquilizes it and yet enlivens it; and thus, through the influence of the mind over the body gives the effect of refreshing rest and reinvigoration to the whole system.” IfsGivingMindWholeBodyActionSpiritualityResultsBeautyEconomyInfluenceConditionsEffectsExerciseSceneRelationReactionsNervousOperationsIntimateEnjoymentGardeningFatigueSceneryNervous SystemRefreshingAction And Reaction Book:Yosemite and the Mariposa grove: a preliminary report, 1865 Source: Yosemite and the Mariposa grove: a preliminary report, 1865
“Never underestimate the healing effects of beauty.” HealingBeautyEffectsUnderestimateNever Underestimate Author:Florence Nightingale