“The epithet beautiful is used by surgeons to describe operations which their patients describe as ghastly, by physicists to describe methods of measurement which leave sentimentalists cold, by lawyers to describe cases which ruin all the parties to them, and by lovers to describe the objects of their infatuation, however unattractive they may appear to the unaffected spectators.”

“An action which is suffered by, or required of, an object. Operations may be selectors, constructors, or iterators. An operation is contained in an object's interface and has its details described in a corresponding method. Operations may be composite, i. e., composed of other operations. However, encapsulation of composite operations within the interface to an object is not encouraged.”

“Objects must be described only in order to describe the feelings they envoke in us.”

“In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.”

“Our sins describe us, and our prohibitions describe our sins.”

“There is always something about our feeling for beautiful things which can neither be described nor communicated, which is unshared and unshareable.”

“I can’t exactly describe how I feel but it’s not quite right. And it leaves me cold.”

“This brings us to Anarchism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and that the State should be abolished.”

“such hours are beautiful to live, but very hard to describe…”

“If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.”