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“College doesn't look like it's fun anymore. I mean, have you seen how miserable and how miserable-looking a lot of the students are? They're deliberately like ugly-fying themselves. You see them on TikTok. They're out of shape, they're asexual. They're rejecting the truth in beauty. They all look like rejects from a loony bin. I'd steer clear of college, too.”
Greg Gutfeld (born 1964) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fox News host says he wouldn’t go to college now because he doesn’t find the students attractive enough" Media Matters (October 6, 2022)
“Unlike Bedford, Gloucester had chosen a bride who suited his own desires, not those of his family. In autumn 1422 he had married Henry’s godmother, Jacqueline of Hainault, a young woman of renowned intelligence, beauty and spirit. The only trouble was, she was already married.”
Lauren Johnson (author) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What leaves a lasting impression isn't just the beauty of the Turkish heroine—it's that female characters are often portrayed with more strength compared to Arab productions.”
Amina Khalil (born 1988) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Death had gone over like a wild simoom, And marked her youthful husband for the tomb. And must he only suffer? Still the pride Of youth and beauty lives, the lovely bride. She, too, must die: some savage god, unknown To Christian climes, demands her for his own.”
Thomas Skinner (British Army officer, died 1843) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Beauty lies in the imperfections, in the raw and untamed.”
Wangechi Mutu (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Art holds the power to transform pain into beauty.”
Wangechi Mutu (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The creative process is messy, but it is in that chaos that we find beauty.”
Wangechi Mutu (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I believe that Lumo Naturals is a home for anyone who embraces their natural beauty. From our niche of hair care treatments made with locally-sourced ingredients, to a uniquely designed detangling process, we fill the gap of personalised and flexible hair regimens that help our clients fall in love with their hair and also nature’s bounty.”
Farida Yahya (born 1987) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Art saves people. Art has the power to transform my sorrows into beauty and to turn my despair into hope.”
Crystal Asige (born 1990) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hip-hop suffered so much because it came with this ego, as egotistical as our genre is... it got to the point where the music wasn’t interesting anymore. The sounds were exactly the same. That’s the beauty of collaboration, it gives songs a new life, a new feel and because the mainstreams (established artists) weren’t trying to work with new artists, it became stagnant.”
Rouge (rapper) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I was raised by my parents along with my older sister. I was shy as a child. So, my mom suggested that I enter beauty pageants because she believed that they would help build my confidence. Indeed they helped me to become a strong and independent person. Growing up, and even now as an adult, I didn’t have many friends because I enjoyed being on my own”
Buhle Samuels (born 1990) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It somehow caught enough illumination from the stars to gleam a bit, though without romance or beauty. It simply reminded him of unpleasant things and his aversion to large bodies of the stuff, which to him had but three effects: it made one wet, it made one cold, or it made one dead. All three were to be avoided.”
Stephen Hunter (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’ve turned all of those tools of oppression into beauty and art.”
Mamela Nyamza (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My environment growing up was very beauty-focused . . . you don't go out looking crazy, you always make sure you look prim and proper.”
Ngozi Esther Edeme wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Many critics, when talking about African stories, concentrate on the “what” question. Like what is the author saying here. They would ignore the “how”; the beauty of one’s writing”
Shadreck Chikoti (born 1979) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We look back on what we have done and improve on it. The beauty of this is that I get to perform in my homeland, where I grew up, where everyone appreciates the songs I have done.”
Diana Hamilton (musician) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My work, like my life is less interested in exploring and/or using the female body according to any set of beauty standard, but rather looking at the female body in its most private and intimate setting.”
Rehema Chachage (born 1987) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When they were not working, he’d connect it up in his flat and play music. I was curious and would go through the cassettes. Every now and then he’d take me with him, to do the day parties, the beauty pageants, graduation parties. We were using cassette decks then. That’s how it started.”
Black Coffee (DJ) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I paint where there is beauty in all its guises, and strength; displaying these values in my works critical and this valuing of life and the spirit of human beings I what informs my pallet and the colours I work. with.”
“I draw inspiration from all ancient cultures, particularly those that address human themes: tolerance, beauty, religion—cultures that elevate the human soul”
Abdoulaye Konaté (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When my mom fell ill, it was then that my work changed. My work lost color. I could not see the beauty in color. The context of my work had totally shifted.”
Beatrice Wanjiku (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I say to people: If you want pretty pictures, I don’t know how to do that anymore. Beauty is so temporary”
Beatrice Wanjiku (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My work starts with a feeling. It could be more than one feeling, like the feeling of beauty and terror, sometimes desire and vulnerability”
Cinga Samson (born 1986) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: THE IMPENETRABLE STARE OF CINGA SAMSON 17 March 2020
“I like that being an artist demands you to see something about life and the beauty of God. I believe that makes me very religious and spiritual.”
Cinga Samson (born 1986) first seen 2026 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cinga Samson: Ubuntu, Terror Management and Belonging September 2026
“I always wanted to record moments of beauty, moments of knowledge. Art is life. Without art, life would be frozen.”
J. D. 'Okhai Ojeikere (1930–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Art taught me patience. Code taught me scale. Both taught me that the best work happens when you refuse to choose between beauty and function.”
Patrick Chuka (born 2000) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The beauty of just soaking time in, enjoying your process and growing gradually.”
Amazing Klef (born 1993) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It was a lot of work. I started doing beauty pageants when I was 4 years old so my whole life I’ve known what I wanted to do. My whole life I been preparing for this. I definitely do think the struggles my mother went thru, the things I saw her do and the strength she had as an immigrant in this country to make sure I was good gave me the confidence I have today.”
Amara La Negra (born 1990) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am inspired by the physical structure of the National Theatre, the beauty of the landscape and the diversity of interest.”
Jude Anogwih wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You have to let the great joy and beauty of the world be seen, but also the rage, the injustice of it all.”
Misan Harriman (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Beauty has always been the most perfect, the most profound, the most lasting agent of change, immortality, timelessness, and hence the most radical of all artistic agents.”
“The African image and beauty has been trashed by Western colonial interventions.”
“Black women don’t relate to white standards of beauty; they have no desire to make their lips thinner or their skins lighter”
Naomi Sims (1948–2009) said by 2009 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Perversion, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.”
Larry Townsend (1930–2008) first seen 1972 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Leatherman's Handbook (1972), ch. 1
“That’s the beauty of playing this part, is I get to explore more than just a day in the life of. I get to explore his day to day reality, not only in his profession, but in his life. And we tend to compartmentalize the preacher or the politician, as if that’s all they are.”
Keith David (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Black beauty means being comfortable in your skin, I think especially because we come in so many tones and shades and hair textures. I think it's just knowing what works for you and making sure that melanin pops!”
Nadine Mills wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’m excited about all the unreleased music coming out. Thinking about what’s scheduled for the rest of this year is remarkable. The anticipation is something to die for; I know a of these records will inspire many people, and I can’t wait to share this beauty with the world.”
“I think being in dance so young, at like eight years old and being in a performance element helped me develop my love for beauty.”
Naomi (wrestler) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I wanted to go to hair school. I just decided on a different route. It was funny when they said, ‘You own a hair company.’ I love the beauty business in general. It was easy for me to fall into speaking about hair and hair-care lines and all those great things.”
Crystle Stewart (born 1981) first seen 2026 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Crystle Stewart Reflects on Fame, Family and Finding Her Power in 'Beauty in Black';By Liz Ritter on Mar 19, 2026
“The beauty and the anxiety lies in the fact that there’s no way to know what the new story will look like.”
Maria Taylor (sportscaster) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’m learning from him as much as he’s learning from me. That’s the beauty of it – it’s a two-way street.”
Wihan Lubbe (born 1992) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self-determination. The best books have most beauty.”
William Ellery Channing (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The greatest truths are wronged if not linked with beauty, and they win their way most surely and deeply into the soul, when arranged in this their natural and fit attire.”
William Ellery Channing (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We all have a weakness for beauty.”
Albert Camus (disputed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Age Before Beauty." "Pearls Before Swine.”
Dorothy Parker (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If we take a survey of ages and of countries, we shall find the women, almost - without exception - at all times and in all places, adored and oppressed. Man, who has never neglected an opportunity of exerting his power, in paying homage to their beauty, has always availed himself of their weakness He has been at once their tyrant and their slave.”
Thomas Paine (disputed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If all things are in common among friends, the most precious is Wisdom. What can Juno give which thou canst not receive from Wisdom? What mayest thou admire in Venus which thou mayest not also contemplate in Wisdom? Her beauty is not small, for the lord of all things taketh delight in her. Her I have loved and diligently sought from my youth up.”
Giordano Bruno (attributed) first seen 1950 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In Dorothea Waley Singer, Giordano Bruno: His Life and Thought (1950)
“Beauty is the promise of happiness.”
Edmund Burke (misattributed) first seen 1822 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Actually by Stendhal: "La beauté n'est que la promesse du bonheur" (Beauty is no more than the promise of happiness), in De L'Amour (1822), chapter 17
“Beauty's of a fading nature Has a season and is gone!”
Robert Burns (disputed) first seen 1789 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Will Ye Go and Marry Katie?, attributed to Burns in P. H. Dalbiac (ed.) Dictionary of Quotations: English (London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Ltd., 1896) p. 34. But cf. Wilt Thou Go and Marry, Katie? in Alexander Ross's H…
“Fame's but a hollow echo; gold, pure clay; Honour, the darling but of one short day, Beauty—th' eye's idol—but a damasked skin; State, but a golden prison to live in And torture free-born minds.”
Walter Raleigh (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source