Dictionaries:
beauty:
1. The quality in a thing or person that makes it pleasurable to look at.2. A beauty , a very beautiful girl or woman . Shes (quite) a beauty! Can be regional: A California beauty; a Southern beauty .
3. Slang from the early 1960s for the ass . See ass for synonyms.
See Also: actress, actress starlette, Adonis, Afrodite, amorous rites, Aphrodite, Athor, B-girl, bachelor bait, bathing beauty, beaut, beauts, beauty, beauty mark, beauty parlor, beauty spot, callomania, coochee-coochee, Cyprian, dog fashion, dog style, dog ways, doggie style, doggy style, doggy ways, Freya, Gibson girl, The, Hathor, knockout, lipstick lesbian, living doll, mermaid, Narcissus, pulchritude, queen, skin diving, stunner, tit lottery, upper-ten, Venus, vision of loveliness, walking dream, woman-proof
Quotes Containing beauty:
Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey) in American Beauty (1999): ''Smile! You''re at Mr. Smiley''''.''
''I''ve often wondered if beauty doesn''t bring more sorrow than happiness.'' Lewis Venable (Robert Cummings) in The Lost Moment (1947)
''There is no such thing as natural beauty .'' Truvy Jones (Dolly Parton), a beautician, to Annelle Dupuy Desoto (Daryl Hannah) in Steel Magnolias (1989)
Lewis Venable (Robert Cummings) to Tina Borderau (Susan Hayworth) in The Lost Moment (1947): ''I''ve often wondered if beauty doesn''t bring more sorrow than happiness.''
Wallace Stevens 1879-1955) Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird: ''Beauty more than bitterness / Makes the heart break .''
John Keating (Robin Williams) to his students in Dead Poets Society (1989): ''Medecine, law, business , engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life . But poetry, beauty , romance , love , these are what we stay alive for.''
''That body was put together by somebody very close to God.'' Leo Schneider (Joseph Bologna) commenting on a woman''s beauty in Chapter Two (1979)
Max Reid (Justin Cooper) and dad Fletcher (Jim Carrey) in Liar Liar (1997): - Max: ''My teacher tells me beauty is on the inside.'' - Fletcher: ''That''s just something ugly people say.''
''The world is changing, but two things remain constant. (...) Youth, and beauty . You know they''re really one and the same thing .'' Dudley (Cary Grant), an angel , to Julia Brougham (Loretta Young) in The Bishop''s Wife (1947)
Carolyn Burnham (Annette Bening) and Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey) in American Beauty (1999): - Carolyn: ''Your father seems to think this type of behavior is something to be proud of.'' - Lester: ''And your mother seems to prefer I go-through life like a fucking prisoner while she keeps my dick in a mason jar under the sink.''
Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey) in American Beauty (1999): ''Look at me. Jerking off in the shower. This will be the highlight of my day.''
Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey) in American Beauty (1999): ''Look at me. Jerking off in the shower. This will be the highlight of my day.''
John Keating (Robin Williams) to his students in Dead Poets Society (1989): 'Medecine, law, business , engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life . But poetry, beauty , romance , love , these are what we stay alive for.'
Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey) in American Beauty (1999): 'That's my wife , Carolyn. See the way the handle on her pruning shears matches her gardening clogs? That's not an accident.'
A fellow detective and Sgt. Rizzoli (Whoopie Goldberg) in Fatal Beauty (1987): - Detective: ''Hey, Rizzoli, do you ever get it doggie-style?'' - Rizzoli: ''No, but how does it feel?''
Jane Burnham (Thora Birch) to her father Lester (Kevin Spacey) in American Beauty (1999): ''I need a father who''s a role model, not some horny geek-boy who''s gonna spray his shorts every time I bring a girlfriend home from school.''
Carbo (Jan-Michael Vincent) and Luke Matthews (James Coburn) in Bite the Bullet (1975): - Carbo: 'When a woman does it for money ...' - Luke: 'The man always gets the best of the bargain. Before you take her to bed , she's a thing of beauty ; in bed , an angel of mercy; and afterwards, she's a...' - Carbo: 'A whore ...' - Luke: '...a pillow of peace.'
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