dictionnaire Français - Anglais

beauté Anglais:

1. prettiness

Anglais mot "beauté"(prettiness) se produit dans des ensembles:

Fiches du livre - "Watteau" (C. Lewis Hind)
Fiches du livre - "Ozma of Oz" (L. Frank Baum)
Fiches du livre - "The Belfry" (May Sinclair)
Fiches du livre - "The Wayfarers" (J. C. Snaith)
Fiches du livre - "The Lost Dispatch" (Anonymous)

2. beauty

She's a beauty.

Our land abounds in nature’s gifts, Of beauty rich and rare; In history’s page let every stage, Advance Australia Fair!

I suppose that what we mean by beauty is that object, spiritual or material, more often material, which satisfies our aesthetic sense.

Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed, for God sets us nothing but riddles. Here the boundaries meet and all contradictions exist side by side.

Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, wisdom is not truth, truth is not beauty, beauty is not love, love is not music, music is the best.

The prince says that the world will be saved by beauty! And I maintain that the reason he has such playful ideas is that he is in love.

For many years I thought that it was beauty alone that gave significance to life and that the only purpose that could be assigned to the generations that succeed one another on the face of this crowded earth was to produce an artist now and then.

There appeared at this time a lady at Court, who drew the eyes of the whole world; and one may imagine she was a perfect beauty, to gain admiration in a place where there were so many fine women.

Just as the female ant after coition loses her wings, which then become superfluous, nay, dangerous for breeding purposes, so for the most part does a woman lose her beauty after giving birth to one or two children; and probably for the same reasons.

It is a great mortification to the vanity of man, that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value.

Although I modified this extravagance later by including the beautiful life among the works of art that alone gave a meaning to life, it was still beauty that I valued.

Great as is the sensuous beauty of gems, their rarity and price adds an expression of distinction to them, which they would never have if they were cheap.

The superior gratification derived from the use and contemplation of costly and supposedly beautiful products is, commonly, in great measure a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty.

It seemed to me that beauty was like the summit of a mountain peak; when you had reached it there was nothing to do but to come down again.