Beauty is...

... a characteristic of a person, place, object or idea that provides a perceptual experience of pleasure, meaning or satisfaction. Beauty is studied as part of aesthetics, sociology, social psychology and culture. The subjective experience of beauty often involves the interpretation of some entity as being in harmony with nature, which may lead to feelings of attraction and emotional well-being.

• Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it. -Confucius
  

• Beauty is pain ~ Steven Minshall

• A girl of sixteen deserves no credit for her looks. Beauty at sixty is her souls doing. -Anonymous

• Beauty will save the world. -Fyodor Dostoevsky
  

• Anybody who preserves the ability to recognize beauty will never get old. -Franz Kafka
  

• Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.-Stendhal, On love
  

Beauty. The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.-Ambrose Bierce, The devil`s Dictionary