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“In my country, where beauty queens are often applauded for speaking in English, I won my national title using Filipino, our national language. As a cultural torchbearer, I seek to lead the path in forging cross-cultural understanding among my sisters as your next Miss Supranational ambassadress.”
Alethea Ambrosio first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: PH's Alethea Ambrosio named Miss Supranational Asia and Oceania, finishes in Top 12 Life The Philippine Star, 7 July 2024.
“Music should not be confined by boundaries; in art, there are no absolute rules, and it is precisely this freedom that gives it its beauty.”
Mehran Matin (born 1996) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Mehran Matin: Music should not be confined by boundaries, BBC Persia (December 2025).
“She said she had learnt one thing from Balzac: that a woman’s beauty is a treasure beyond price.”
Dai Sijie (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[Beauty] is always free and adherent: free because it does not adhere to conceptual knowledge, adherent because it adheres to an interpretation of nature.”
Luigi Pareyson (1918–1991) said by 1991 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is much tenderness and beauty in many of the poems, but the writers wrote in a language which they did not command, but by which they were commanded, as all who try to write ancient Greek are.”
William Roger Paton (1857–1921) first seen 1916 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the "late" poems from the Cycle of Agathias, "made in the age of Justinian". The Greek Anthology, vol. 1 (London: William Heinemann, 1916) Preface, pp. v–vi
“... the spread of urban conditions constitutes a terrible threat until we have learned to appreciate the real necessity for in the surroundings at every stage of human life. We must realize, in all its implications, the truth that , and the full development of intellectual or spiritual life, no less than mere existence, requires contact with nature and natural beauty.”
Brenda Colvin (1897–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I had always been aware that the Universe is sad; everything in it, animate or inanimate, the wild creatures, the stones, the stars, was enveloped in the great sadness, pervaded by it. [...] Never then or now have I been able to look at a cloudless sky at night and see beauty there.”
Hayden Carruth (1921–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Senseless Logic of the Wild New York Times, March 20, 2019
“When I walked the Miss Universe stage, I wore my pharmacist license as proudly as my sash. Young girls need to see that beauty and brains aren't opposites—they're powerful partners. There's room for us in labs, in classrooms, and on every stage.”
Janine Tugonon (born 1989) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Women in Science Forum, Department of Science and Technology Philippines (March 8, 2024)
“Knowledge, Past and Beauty are the three great perspectives that have always defined and, in many ways, encompass our entire history. For centuries, these three perspectives have kept this small Mediterranean peninsula at the centre of the world's attention, carrying the name of Italy beyond all borders.”
Ernesto Galli della Loggia (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The sea is a memory. It is mesmerising. Its beauty is intolerable. What it buries is vaster than what it reveals.”
Gina Apostol (born 1963) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Insurrecto (2018)
“At 27, I see things so much clearer now the value of hard work, the beauty of building something meaningful, and the strength of standing beside someone through different phases of life,”
Sofia Andres (born 1998) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sofia Andres on building life and business with Daniel Miranda: ‘Through the years, you’ve changed me in the best ways’, Nikka Sabio, Push Team, 13 September 2025.
“Such is our way of thinking — we find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates.”
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (1886–1965) said by 1965 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty.”
Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (1886–1965) said by 1965 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Tolkien has become a monster, devoured by his own popularity and absorbed into the absurdity of our time. The chasm between the beauty and seriousness of the work, and what it has become, has overwhelmed me. The commercialization has reduced the aesthetic and philosophical impact of the creation to nothing. There is only one solution for me: to turn my head away.”
Christopher Tolkien (1924–2020) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview in Le Monde (9 July 2012) as quoted in David Mills, "Tolkien Absorbed in Absurdity", First Things (17 January 2013)
“Beauty brings copies of itself into being. (p. 3)”
Elaine Scarry (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To misstate, or even merely understate, the relation of the universities to beauty is one kind of error that can be made. A university is among the precious things that can be destroyed. (p. 8)”
Elaine Scarry (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Beauty is a dangerous property, tending to corrupt the mind of the wife, though it soon loses its influence over the husband. A figure agreeable and engaging, which inspires affection, without the ebriety of love, is a much safer choice.”
Henry Home, Lord Kames (1696–1782) said by 1782 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“An agreeable figure and winning manner, which inspire affection without love, are always new. Beauty loses its relish, the graces never; after the longest acquaintance, they are no less agreeable than at first.”
Henry Home, Lord Kames (1696–1782) said by 1782 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I refuse to look at it that way. Perhaps she was just luckier that day. But I feel a bit disappointed that I didn’t win Miss Talent. Almost all the girls in the pageant and the viewers thought I would win since I did beatboxing, which was unusual for beauty queens to do in the talent portion. I’ve always been musically inclined. In fact, one of my dreams is to become a singer.”
Queenierich Rehman (born 1988) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This is true, at the least, that no veil of beauty hides the evils from our sight.”
Jane Smiley (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Destroying a living creature is a double crime: both life and beauty are extinguished at the same time. (p. 173)”
Michela Vittoria Brambilla (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But one thing I didn’t feel like doing was changing myself just to fit into another person’s idea of beauty.”
Bubbles Paraiso (born 1988) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: [www.gmanetwork.com/news/lifestyle/healthandwellness/766102/bubbles-paraiso-reveals-she-was-told-to-bleach-her-skin-for-a-tvc-at-17/story/] GMA News Online, 29 November 2020.
“generally speaking, the beauty of us all comes down to our souls. And a voice is a powerful example of what the soul is going to be. I think the voice is the closest thing we can experience to a soul in its purest form.”
Melody Gardot (born 1985) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We were drowning in beauty we couldn’t feel”
Hammond Johns first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Reactor, The Faraday Room (2025).
“Beauty for the Indian artist has been a reflection of the glory of God.”
Benoy K. Behl (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Yearned Shelley o'er the golden flame? Left Keats for beauty's lure, a name But "writ in water"? Woe is me! To grieve o'er flowerful faëry. My Phasian doves are flown so long— The dream is lovelier than the song!”
James D. Corrothers (1869–1917) said by 1917 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dream and the Song", st. 3, in James Weldon Johnson, ed., The Book of American Negro Poetry (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1922), p. 36
“I always felt like I deserved a little bit more but I only got this much. But then girls do a lot of endorsements so we kind of make it up. So that is why I never talk about it (pay parity) because the boys don't do as many endorsements as girls. I hope I'm right. We do so many beauty commercials and hair commercials like so many brands and I think we kind of cover it up.”
Parineeti Chopra (born 1988) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Parineeti Chopra Draws Flak For Saying Beauty, Hair Commercials Compensate For Unequal Pay". News18. 7 August 2019.
“Sure never pain such beauty wore, Or look’d so amiable before!”
William Broome (1689–1745) said by 1745 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Brighter from her disease she shines, As fire the precious gold refines. Thus when the silent grave becomes Pregnant with life as fruitful wombs; When the wide seas and spacious earth Resign us to our second birth; Our moulder’d frame rebuilt assumes New beauty, and for ever blooms, And, crown’d with youth’s immortal pride, We angels rise, who mortals died.”
William Broome (1689–1745) said by 1745 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It may well be that all suffering, even the prickles in the canefields, are part of the glory of man, and it may well be that looking at it in a certain way, from a certain angle, I may one day be able to grant a certain beauty even to [him]. (chapter 15)”
Simone Schwarz-Bart (born 1938) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Education is not about enacting a prescriptive, boxed sort of curriculum-based classroom, but instead is about passing on a legacy of a love for learning, an independent joy in discovery, a motivation to bring light, beauty, and goodness back into the world.”
Sally Clarkson (born 1953) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Awaking Wonder: Opening Your Child's Heart to the Beauty of Learning (2020), Bethany House Publishers. p. 17-18.
“Looking at Philip Van Aver's exquisite gouache-and-ink paintings—tiny paper masterpieces no bigger than a valentine, yet filled with more love hours than can ever be repaid—I understand this failure of spirit in the presence of beauty.”
Alex Jovanovich (born 1975) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Portfolio introduction; "Portfolio: Philip Van Aver", Artforum, Summer 2019.
“The platform or the altar of love may be analyzed and explained; it is constructed of virtue, beauty, and affection. Such is the pyre, such is the offering; but the ethereal spark must come from heaven, that lights the sacrifice.”
Jane Porter (1776–1850) said by 1850 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Virtue, without the graces, is like a rich diamond unpolished—it hardly looks better than a common pebble; but when the hand of the master rubs off the roughness, and forms the sides into a thousand brilliant surfaces, it is then that we acknowledge its worth, admire its beauty, and long to wear it in our bosoms.”
Jane Porter (1776–1850) said by 1850 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“How does Christianity operate in the world? In the way the artist works on the stone he works: imprinting in it – as much as is possible! – the light and ideal beauty with which he is filled.”
Giorgio La Pira (1904–1977) said by 1977 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is clear now: to be like the power plants from which this divine energy is released, shocking every laziness and every slowness... the mysterious lakes where the healthy waters gather, destined to operate in the world a «flood» purifying of grace, truth, beauty and peace!”
Giorgio La Pira (1904–1977) said by 1977 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Beneath the surface of formless matter is the firm ideal structure of a rebirth that has, in the city of God, its model of beauty and light.”
Giorgio La Pira (1904–1977) said by 1977 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The dusky swallows in thy balcony To build their nests again will come; again, With friendly wing, beat, clamoring joyously, Against thy window-pane.But they that paused, forgetful to pursue Their flight, thy beauty and my bliss before, To whom our names a sound familiar grew,— They will come back no more.”
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (1836–1870) said by 1870 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Nevermore" by Mary J. Serrano, in The Critic, Vol. IV, No. 101 (December 5, 1885), p. 271
“Those sombre-hued swallows again will stray To thy balcony, love, there to build them a nest; As they fly to and fro in a vague unrest They will call to thee, call to thee at their play.But those who lingered our names to learn, To drink in the sweetness of all they saw— My bliss and thy beauty without a flaw— They will never return, they will never return.”
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (1836–1870) said by 1870 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Poems of Gustavo Adolfo Becquer (1891), trans. Mason Carnes (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1891), p. 58
“They will return, the dark-winged swallows, To build their nest under your balcony, And once again, flitting against your window, Will call you playfully;—But those who used to stop their rapid flight, love, To gaze upon your beauty and my joy,— The ones who seemed to call us by our names, love, These—will return no more!”
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (1836–1870) said by 1870 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Once" by Ellen Watson, in Travelers Record, Vol. XXVIII, No. 7 (October, 1892), p. 4
“The dusky swallows will return again To build their nests upon your balcony, Flutter their pinions at your window-pane And, seeking entrance, greet you playfully.But, those same birds, who used to pause in flight To marvel at your beauty and to yearn For bliss like mine; who knew our names and sight Those birds, alas, will not again return.”
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (1836–1870) said by 1870 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The "Rimas" of Gustavo A. Becquer, trans. Jules Renard (Boston: The Gorham Press, 1908), p. 55
“I have always wanted to have my own line of makeup, so the decision to go into the beauty industry wasn’t just one of business but also of passion,”
Diiadem (born 1991) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is a story, then, like many others, of an unknown time and place, of everywhere and of always, a story in which women and men are crushed by too much beauty or, more commonly, too much cruelty. (Chapter 1)”
Dina Salústio (born 1941) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It’s like the Nigerian crown for a beauty queen who had earlier won state and zonal crowns! The prize is much higher than the Association of Nigerian Authors’, British Council’s, and other prizes I had won.”
Sam Ukala (1948–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our homebound journey begins / To end at the center / So, everyone shall know the beauty.”
Mamman Jiya Vatsa (1940–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The early morning walk offers the opportunity to see things, see beauty and ugliness, often seated side by side, even as much of that had hitherto been only hidden in plain sight.”
Simbo Olorunfemi (born 1901) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sometimes the most refined language comes out in the direst themes and situations. In a case where it is combined with a story from the heart, I am sure there will be no other result than beauty.”
Sueddie Agema wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Poetry is feeling. It’s an expression of ideas and emotions through the beauty and melody of words. Poetry is like a sweet breeze; you can’t quite grasp what it is but you can feel its sensation. Poetry is all sense and nonsense.”
Chief Moomen wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I believe a woman’s beauty lies in her ability to survive the vicious and remain magnificently alive to talk about it. There should be no shame in telling ones story. I wanted to create a character I could gently lead out of that specific internal conflict toward emotional freedom.”
Tarryn Fisher (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I sing of your passing beauty, a form I fix in the Eternal, before jealous fate reduces you to ashes to nourish the roots of life.”
Léopold Sedar Senghor (1906–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source