Anggun

saudara haris azman dalam pengucapan awam bahasa amerikanya mengungkapkan 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder'.

kecantikan merupakan sesuatu perkara yang subjektif. setiap orang mempunyai pentafsiran sendiri terhadap erti kecantikan. setiap orang juga mempunyai kayu ukur tersendiri dalam menilai keanggunan seorang perempuan. sebab itu, seseorang ini akan dilihat anggun bagi pandangan mata seseorang lelaki tetapi tidak bagi lelaki lain. begitu juga sebaliknya. sesetengah lelaki memerlukan darjah yang tinggi dalam mengiktiraf keanggunan seseorang.

English dramatist John Lyly, in his Euphues and his England, wrote:
"...as neere is Fancie to Beautie, as the pricke to the Rose, as the stalke to the rynde, as the earth to the roote."

Shakespeare said

Good Lord Boyet, my beauty, though but mean,Needs not the painted flourish of your praise:Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye,Not utter'd by base sale of chapmen's tongues

Benjamin Franklin, in Poor Richard's Almanack, 1741, wrote:
Beauty, like supreme dominionIs but supported by opinion

David Hume's Essays, Moral and Political, 1742, include:
"Beauty in things exists merely in the mind which contemplates them."