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“Belgium is not the Belgium that you and I knew, Matt, from 20 years ago, which was one of the most beautiful cities and one of the safest cities in the world. Belgium is a horror show right now.”
Donald Trump (born 1946) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Belgium is a “beautiful city”, according to Donald Trump", The Bulletin (June 16, 2016)
“I'll walk into that audience. I'll walk in there, I'll kiss everyone in that audience. I'll kiss the guys and the beautiful women and the -- everybody. I'll just give everybody a big, fat kiss.”
Donald Trump (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Would you like a nice low-income housing project next to your suburban beautiful ranch style house? Generally speaking, no. I saved your suburbs -- women -- suburban women, you're supposed to love Trump.”
Donald Trump (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“So an out-of-control wild man kills beautiful Ashli Babbitt, a true Patriot, who was the only one killed on January 6th. Her mother goes to protest her death and memory, and they arrest her mother. Something has to be done about these Communists and Marxists that are taking over and destroying our Country. Pray for Ashli, and her wonderful, brave mother!”
Donald Trump (born 1946) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 8 January 2023 gab
“Gloves are off.Under crooked Joe Biden. I never called him that. I took the name away from Hillary Clinton. We call her beautiful Hillary now.Now it's crooked Joe, because it's a much more appropriate name right now for this man who's just destroying our country.”
Donald Trump (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It boiled down to something that was very beautiful, the way it happened, and I got along with him very well. He respected me, I respected him. Very smart guy, very strong guy”
Donald Trump (born 1946) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 28 May 2024 about Kim Jong-Un, dictator in North Korea, cited in "Watch: Trump’s Disgusting Praise for “Beautiful” Bond with Kim Jong Un", New Republic
“You won't have to do it anymore. Four more years, you know what, it will be fixed, it will be fine, you won't have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians...I love you Christians. I'm a Christian. I love you, get out, you gotta get out and vote. In four years, you don't have to vote again, we'll have it fixed so good you're not going to have to vote.”
Donald Trump (born 1946) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 27 July 2024 in a speech to Turning Point Action in West Palm Beach, Florida, quote from the Reuters article "Trump tells Christians they won't have to vote after this election" by Tim Reid
“I don't know what happened. With the bomb threats. I know that it's been taken over by illegal migrants, and that's a terrible thing that happened. Springfield was this beautiful town, and now they're going through hell.”
Donald Trump (born 1946) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: How life in Springfield has been disrupted by lies about its Haitian community, PBS News (17 September, 2024)
“We do a lot of these beautiful rallies, and it's so great. We never have an empty seat, never have. Look at it.”
Donald Trump (born 1946) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Donald Trump Rally Videos Show Hundreds of Empty Seats", Newsweek (October 10, 2024)
“To me, the most beautiful word in the dictionary is tariff, and it’s my favorite word. It needs a public relations firm.”
Donald Trump (born 1946) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In Trump’s Economic Plan, Tariff Is ‘the Most Beautiful Word’ ‘’Bloomberg News’’ (October 15, 2024)
“Wow, that's beautiful. This is a different panel than I've ever — everything's computer!”
Donald Trump (born 1946) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: When inspecting a Tesla Model S at the White House; quoted from Donald Trump reviews Tesla Model S: 'Everything's computer' Business Insider (Mar 11, 2025)
“In my case, I like to take a nice shower, take care of my beautiful hair.... I have to stand under the shower for 15 minutes until it gets wet. It comes out drip, drip, drip. It’s ridiculous.”
Donald Trump (born 1946) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: While signing an executive order repealing limits to the flow of water to bathroom showers, taken from ‘Make showers great again’: Why Trump’s fighting bathroom water pressure Al Jazeera (April 10, 2025)
“Claimed about his "big beautiful bill":”
Donald Trump (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don’t like being up here, talking about how unsafe and how dirty and disgusting this once-beautiful capital was.”
Donald Trump (born 1946) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Trump Thought Alaska Was Russia, And The Internet Is Having An Absolute Field Day With It" Yahoo News / Buzzfeed (August 11, 2025)
“And I don't like getting into looks. You know, looks don't mean anything, right? When you're in politics, looks don't matter. Look at Pam, I would never say she was beautiful because that would be the end of my political career.”
Donald Trump (born 1946) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Donald Trump makes 'creepy' flirty comment toward Pam Bondi during Cabinet meeting Irish Star (August 26, 2025)
“Over the next few days, it's going to be demolished. Everything out there is coming down, and we're replacing it with one of the most beautiful ballrooms that you've ever seen.”
Donald Trump (born 1946) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Regarding the demolition of the East Wing of the White House, speaking to donors for the construction of a new ballroom Trump’s East Wing destruction echoes his tactics at Mar-a-Lago and Trump Tower Miami Herald (Octobe…
“We sent that beautiful B-2 bomber in, and we blew up their nuclear potential.”
Donald Trump (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You must have heard about the beautiful Sufi legend of Majnu and Laila. It is not an ordinary love story. The word majnu means mad, mad for God. And laila is the symbol of God. Sufis think of God as the beloved; laila means the beloved. Everybody is a Majnu, and God is the beloved. And one has to open one’s heart, the eye of the heart.”
Rajneesh (1931–1990) said by 1990 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Faith is a beautiful thing. So are forest fires, and the color of gangrene. I think faith—especially capital-F Faith—is more dangerous and more disgusting than either. It is a substitute for thought.”
Theodore Sturgeon (1918–1985) first seen 1951 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: How to Avoid a Hole in the Head, in Marvel Science Stories (May 1951), p. 115
“He looked around the landscape. Drenched in the golden haze of late afternoon it seemed wonderfully tranquil and beautiful, though permeated with a sense of remoteness and even melancholy, like a scene remembered from one’s youth.”
Jack Vance (1916–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Elvo Glissam only knew for certain that he found Schaine as beautiful some magnificent natural process, like a sunrise, or a surge of breaking surf, or stars in the midnight sky.”
Jack Vance (1916–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Cease the bickering! I am indulging the exotic whims of a beautiful princess and must not be distracted.”
Jack Vance (1916–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Candor is never indiscreet. Truth, which is to say, the reflection of life, is beautiful.”
Jack Vance (1916–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A single question remained, the age-old cry of anguish: “How could one so beautiful be so base?”
Jack Vance (1916–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Those unknown heroes whose whitened bones have been piously gathered here, and whose green graves we now strew with sweet and beautiful flowers, choice emblems alike of pure hearts and brave spirits, reached, in their glorious career that last highest point of nobleness beyond which human power cannot go. They died for their country.”
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) said by 1895 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hopes rise and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain. The sound of music floats down a dark street.”
Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) first seen 1956 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Gerald "Ching" Tyrrell, (11 November 1956), p. 28
“From now on I hope always to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in future I will relaxedly turn back to my secret mind to see what it has observed when I thought I was sitting this one out. We never sit anything out. We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.”
Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Zen in the Art of Writing (1990)
“We Earth Men have a talent for ruining big beautiful things. The only reason we didn’t set up hot-dog stands in the midst of the Egyptian temple of Karnak is because it was out of the way and served no large commercial purpose.”
Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) first seen 1948 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: —And the Moon Be Still as Bright (1948)
“And what happened next?” “Silence happened next. God, it was beautiful.”
Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) first seen 1953 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Murderer (1953)
“He struck off into the forest, idly, drawn steadily by a sound that was large enough to fill the universe, the sound of a river going somewhere and not caring; the most beautiful sound of all.”
Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hosting the Oscars is like making love to a beautiful woman — it's something I only get to do when Billy Crystal's out of town.”
Steve Martin (born 1945) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hosting the 73rd Academy Awards (2001) [14:42]
“A colleague who met me strolling rather aimlessly in the beautiful streets of Copenhagen said to me in a friendly manner, “You look very unhappy”; whereupon I answered fiercely, “How can one look happy when he is thinking about the anomalous Zeeman effect?”.”
Wolfgang Pauli (1900–1958) said by 1958 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Writings on Physics and Philosophy (1994), p. 15
“I don't suppose that applies so much to other physicists; I think it’s a peculiarity of myself that I like to play about with equations, just looking for beautiful mathematical relations which maybe don’t have any physical meaning at all. Sometimes they do.”
Paul Dirac (1902–1984) first seen 1963 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with Dr. P. A. M. Dirac by Thomas S. Kuhn at Dirac's home, Cambridge, England, May 7, 1963
“God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world.”
Paul Dirac (1902–1984) first seen 1982 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in The Cosmic Code : Quantum Physics As The Language Of Nature (1982) by Heinz R. Pagels, p. 295; also in Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac : Reminiscences about a Great Physicist (1990) edited by Behram N. Kursunoglu…
“Foo, a beautiful gal wastes her time gracin' up this swamp.”
Walt Kelly (1913–1973) said by 1973 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes; this is partly because it gets unobstructed hold of the hearer’s mind without his being distracted by secondary thoughts, and partly because he feels that here he is not being corrupted or deceived by the arts of rhetoric, but that the whole effect is got from the thing itself.”
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) said by 1860 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All that you see was and is for your sake. The numerous books, uncanny markings, and beautiful thoughts are the ghosts of souls who preceded you. The speech they weave is a link between you and your human siblings. The consequences that cause sorrow and rapture are the seeds that the past has sown in the field of the soul, and by which the future shall profit.”
Kahlil Gibran (1883–1931) said by 1931 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper's wounds, I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience?”
Mother Teresa (1910–1997) first seen 1977 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Statement of 1977, as quoted in Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (2011) by Susan Ratcliffe, p. 373
“I've never seen the poor people being so familiar with their head of state as they were with her. It was a beautiful lesson for me.”
Mother Teresa (1910–1997) first seen 1995 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On meeting Michèle Duvalier, quoted by Christopher Hitchens in The Missionary Position, (Verso, 1995), page 5
“I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot, to share it with the passion of Christ. I think the world is being much helped by the suffering of the poor people.”
Mother Teresa (1910–1997) first seen 1995 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted by Christopher Hitchens in The Missionary Position, (Verso, 1995), page 11
“There are women who are not beautiful but only look that way.”
Karl Kraus (writer) first seen 1909 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sprüche und Widersprüche [Dicta and Contradictions] (1909); as translated by Richard Hanser
“A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.”
Karl Kraus (writer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But what I'd like to know, Is could a place like this Exist so beautiful? Or do we have to find our wings and fly away To the visions in our mind?”
Stevie Wonder (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You're my bondage and my freedom, my flesh burning like a naked summer night, you're my country. Hazel eyes marbled green, you're awesome, beautiful, and brave, you're my desire always just out of reach.”
Nâzım Hikmet (1901–1963) said by 1963 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don’t suppose she would recognize a deep, beautiful thought if you handed it to her on a skewer with tartare sauce.”
P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) said by 1975 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What life means to me is to put the content of Shelley into the form of Zola. The proletarian writer is a writer with a purpose; he thinks no more of "art for art's sake" than a man on a sinking ship thinks of painting a beautiful picture in the cabin; he thinks of getting ashore — and then there will be time enough for art.”
Upton Sinclair (1878–1968) first seen 1906 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cosmopolitan (October 1906)
“Natasha has just come up to the window from the courtyard and opened it wider so that the air may enter more freely into my room. I can see the bright green strip of grass beneath the wall, and the clear blue sky above the wall, and sunlight everywhere. Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression and violence, and enjoy it to the full.”
Leon Trotsky (1879–1940) said by 1940 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We all know the beautiful hymn commencing with the cheerful line: "Hark from the tombs, a doleful sound." Nothing could have been more appropriate for children. It is well to put a coffin where it can be seen from the cradle. When a mother nurses her child, an open grave should be at her feet. This would tend to make the babe serious, reflective, religious and miserable.”
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) said by 1899 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.”
Hermann Hesse (1877–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in A Tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and Wisdom Spanning Continents and Time about India and Her Culture (2008) by Sushama Londhe
“It is very beautiful over there!”
Thomas Edison (1847–1931) first seen 1931 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: These have sometimes been reported as his last words, but were actually spoken several days before his death, as he awoke from a nap, gazing upwards, as reported by his physician Dr. Hubert S. Howe, in Thomas A. Edison,…