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“I miss the country's beauty, its ideal weather, its fertile land, its beautiful lakes and rivers, its sweet-tasting water. I could go on and on. It is after all my homeland”
Sugra Visram (1923–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“She's only a bird in a gilded cage, A beautiful sight to see, You may think she's happy and free from care, She's not, though she seems to be, 'Tis sad when you think of her wasted life, For youth cannot mate with age, And her beauty was sold For an old man's gold, She's a bird in a gilded cage.”
Arthur J. Lamb (1870–1928) first seen 1900 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Bird in a Gilded Cage" (1900), refrain
“I like to be identified as a tennis aesthete, because I, Lorenzo, as a person before being a tennis player, like to look for beauty in all things, even off the court. [...] Of course, elegance does not always correspond to effectiveness and sometimes I would prefer to be less beautiful but more effective.”
Lorenzo Musetti (born 2002) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“At sixteen I was vain because someone praised me. My father said: "You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. If you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your own soul's doing. Then you may be proud of it and be loved for it.”
Marie Stopes (1880–1958) first seen 1942 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in William L. Stidger, There Are Sermons in Stories (Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, 1942), p. 89
“True beauty is not defined by age, colour, size or sex - it is reflected by the spirit within. Someone who has a ready smile, who shows kindness and warmth is always beautiful”
Ruby Hammer (born 1961) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The darkest berry shade looks beautiful on me as someone with a nude complexion and equally as beauty on someone with a pale skin tone”
Ruby Hammer (born 1961) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You are already beautiful as is, and if you would like to enhance your beauty, then I want you to be able to do that using these high‑quality, vegan, cruelty‑free cosmetics at a very affordable cost.”
Melissa Butler wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You’re Smart, You’re Beautiful, You’re Intelligent! You’re a definition of Beauty and Brains.”
Ada Nduka Oyom wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Whatever of goodness emanates from the soul, gathers its soft halo in the eyes; and if the heart be a lurking-place of crime, the eyes are sure to betray the secret. A beautiful eye makes silence eloquent, a kind eye makes contradiction assent, an enraged eye makes beauty a deformity; so you see, forsooth, the little organ plays no inconsiderable, if not a dominant, part.”
Frederick Saunders (librarian) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is more or less of pathos in all true beauty. The delight it awakens has an undefinable and, as it were, luxurious sadness, which is perhaps one element of its might. It may be that this feeling springs from a sense of unattained good, of a perfection of being quite at variance with the present, which the beautiful never fails to suggest.”
Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1813–1871) first seen 1846 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tennyson", in Thoughts On the Poets (New York: C. S. Francis & Co., 1846), p. 275
“Besides having to look my best, I have felt pressure to be sexy and to live up to Eurocentric standards of beauty. Defiantly, I am committed to portraying myself in the most authentic way possible. It isn’t always easy, but I believe that by embracing all of myself I can play my part in expanding the definition of what is considered beautiful and successful.”
Sibongile Mlambo (born 1990) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sibongile fulfilling Hollywood dream". The Standard. August 8, 2020.
“The pageant is very African-centred. The reality out there is that as Africans, we define our beauty according to what the rest of the world tells us is beautiful and with this pageant, we want to rectify that”
Paulina Malulu (born 1989) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No, I do not think pageants are shallow. All pageants pass an important message through a beautiful person or face. It is always a combination of beauty and intellect”
Debbie Collins (born 1992) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nothing is easy. It is not easy to have a baby, for a tree to grow--but that's what is beautiful. That is part of the beauty. To wish for a life of ease is ridiculous. When I think about how I really do feel it overcomes me. Then I wonder if I've done enough”
Henriette Wyeth (1907–1997) said by 1997 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Asked if its hard to always look beautiful. Pia Wurtzbach tells Pinays they can define beauty, confidence 'on their own terms'. ABS-CBN. Retrieved December 16, 2025.”
Pia Wurtzbach (born 1989) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I strongly agree with what you said that ‘Filipinos should accept no matter what looks you have because it’s not the basis of one’s beauty, but it’s a true measure of how good our hearts can be.’ Very beautiful message. Thank you for your appreciation and more power to your organization.”
Ryza Cenon (born 1987) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ryza Cenon, nakatanggap ng letter mula sa Alopecia Philippines secretary, By Daniel Joseph Navalta 29 June 2024.
“[...] the most beautiful part of a discourse is the beauty of the subject: and those who work with their brains know from experience that an ingenious subject wonderfully sharpens the intellect and it seems almost as if the noble subject itself provides thoughts worthy of itself, ambitious to be treated nobly.”
Daniello Bartoli (1608–1685) said by 1685 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Beauty is not confined to the surface; it runs deep within us, flourishing when we feel good in our skin. By fostering self-acceptance, confidence, and a positive mindset, we redefine what it means to be truly beautiful.”
Efungwu Opata (born 1993) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The beautiful lies in the very moment when one senses that beauty is no longer. Forever now, perhaps.”
Manlio Sgalambro (1924–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To see nature as beautiful, it must be considered in its organic productivity, that is, interpreted. Wanting to interpret nature is already loving it: interpretation is already a vision in love with nature that highlights its beauty.”
Luigi Pareyson (1918–1991) said by 1991 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In fact, for the ancient artist, the experience of beauty, the ecstacy on seeing nature or art which is truly beautiful has been considered as akin to Brahmanand or the final bliss.”
Benoy K. Behl (born 1956) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The question is "Form follows what?" ""... is outdated. ...[A]rchitecture ...and society is much more complex, and we have to react to this. ...[W]e have a lot of functional.., good-looking buildings, but we need meaningful.., beautiful buildings... [T]he question is, "What is real beauty?" ...[I]t's a formal expression of love, so.., "Form follows Love!”
Anna Heringer (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The beauty of the sunset is a proof that the end of this our well thought out Dakkada Initiative shall be beautiful.”
Udom Gabriel Emmanuel (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And beauty, making beautiful old rhyme.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“How many times have you become very anxious when forced to wait? There are a million things to see. There are a million beautiful sounds to hear. Open your eyes, see--as if for the first time. Find peace in moments of waiting, and you will witness that all life can be perfectly beautiful.”
Scott Shaw (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thomas Edison's last words were, "It's very beautiful over there." I don't know where there is, but I know it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.”
John Green (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The only current happiness is indifference, the only current feelings are the very small ones, the only current thoughts are smaller still. The only beautiful things are small feelings. Commons sense is never beautiful. People can never understand that the only thing which makes the small dogs' position at all bearable is that the big dogs' reason can analyse it. (p. 258)”
Stig Dagerman (1923–1954) said by 1954 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You must have heard that last autumn I almost got married, but I am glad I realized in time that it had been an illusion, all those beautiful things. Although I have always lived for art, I am also attracted to the beautiful in life and so I sometimes do things that seem strange for me.”
Piet Mondrian (1872–1944) first seen 1912 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote in an undated letter to Alleta de Jongh, Paris, c. Spring 1912; as cited in Mondrian, - The Art of Destruction, Carel Blotkamp, Reaktion Books LTD. London 2001, p. 243, note 61
“Our lives become beautiful not because we are perfect. Our lives become beautiful because we put our heart into what we are doing. -Sadhguru”
Sadhguru (born 1957) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Isha Insights Magazine, Spring Edition 2009
“Shallan smiled at the wonderful surroundings, the light rainfall, the beautiful plant life. A little dampness was a small price to pay for the melodious sound of sprinkling rain, for fresh clean air and a beautiful sky full of clouds that varied in every shade of grey.”
Brandon Sanderson (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hard to say whether personal immortality would be a good thing or not. Not for the masses, surely! Too many of them as it was. But a select few, like Terangi Maclaren—or was it worth the trouble? Even given boats, chess, music, the No Drama, beautiful women and beautiful spectroscopes, life could get heavy.”
Poul Anderson (1926–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Some say that no machine conceived to kill could ever be called beautiful. Magnificent, maybe, and awesome perhaps. But not beautiful. The thing is though that in the battleship's short life of just 90 years it turned out to be a less effective killing machine than amost any other weapon of war. All they did was steam around the oceans, making the people who paid for them feel good.”
Jeremy Clarkson (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“India is like a bride which has got two beautiful and lustrous eyes—Hindus and Mussulmans. If they quarrel against each other that beautiful bride will become ugly and if one destroys the other, she will lose one eye.”
Syed Ahmed Khan (1817–1898) first seen 1883 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In a speech at Patna on January 1883, Writings and Speeches of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, Nachiketa Publications (1972), p. 160.
“I felt that everything is beautiful, but [not?] that which man tries intentionally to make beautiful; that the work of an ordinary bricklayer is more valid than the artwork of all but a very few artists.”
Ellsworth Kelly (1923–2015) first seen 1969 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quotes from 'Notes from 1969', Ellsworth Kelly; as quoted in the exhibition catalogue, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 13 December
“I can never get over when you're on the beach how beautiful the sand looks and the water washes it away and straightens it up and the trees and the grass all look great. I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.”
Andy Warhol (1928–1987) first seen 1975 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In: "Inside Andy Warhol," by Andy Warhol. Cosmopolitan, 179, Sept. 1975, p. 189.
“Happiness is beautiful, all by itself. A happy person is beautiful, per se.”
Larry Niven (born 1938) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.”
E. E. Cummings (1894–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Beautiful as sweet! And young as beautiful! and soft as young! And gay as soft! and innocent as gay.”
Edward Young (1683–1765) said by 1765 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In all this world there is nothing so beautiful as a happy child," says good old Santa Claus; and if he had his way the children would all be beautiful, for all would be happy.”
L. Frank Baum (1856–1919) said by 1919 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Beautiful things may be admired, if not loved," asserted the Tin Man. "Flowers are beautiful, for instance, but we are not inclined to marry them. Duty, on the contrary, is a bugle call to action, whether you are inclined to act, or not. In this case, I obey the bugle call of duty.”
L. Frank Baum (1856–1919) first seen 1918 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Tin Woodman of Oz (1918), Ch. 2 : The Heart of the Tin Woodman
“The beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.”
Thomas Mann (1875–1955) said by 1955 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I love beautiful women, and beautiful women love me. It has to be both ways.”
Donald Trump (born 1946) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with Norwegian talk show host Fredrik Skavlan in (November 2003).
“Trump: My daughter is beautiful, Ivanka Stern: By the way, your daughter, Trump: She’s beautiful Stern: Can I say this? A piece of ass Trump: Yeah”
Donald Trump (born 1946) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: September 2004 exchange with Howard Stern reported in 2016 by CNN
“If I took this shirt off, you would see a beautiful beautiful person. But you would see wounds all over. I’ve taken a lot of wounds I can tell you. More than I suspect any president ever.”
Donald Trump (born 1946) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 24 June 2024 "Donald Trump Talks About Taking Off His Shirt To Show 'Wounds.' Internet Can't Even.", Yahoo News
“Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you more beautiful.”
Zsa Zsa Gabor (1917–2016) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Zsa Zsa Gabor in her own words, BBC News, 2016-12-19.
“You believe that I run after the strange because I do not know the beautiful; no, it is because you do not know the beautiful that I seek the strange.”
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799) said by 1799 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace.”
Karl Kraus (writer) first seen 1955 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Beim Wort genommen (1955); as translated by Harry Zohn
“As beautiful as Halle is on the outside, she's 10 times more beautiful on the inside.”
Halle Berry (born 1966) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Rick Yune — reported in Amy Longsdorf (November 17, 2002) "Still flying, still down to earth - Nothing's been the same since Oscar night, except Halle Berry herself", The Record, p. E01.
“I do not believe there is another city on earth so beautiful as Paris, nor another people with such an appreciation of the beautiful as the French.”
Edward Hopper (1882–1967) first seen 1906 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Edward Hopper, in a letter to his mother, Paris, December 8, 1906, as quoted in Edward Hopper - An Intimate Biography, Gail Levin, Alfred A. Knopf, USA 1995, pp. 56-57
“Hunting hawks do not belong in cages, no matter how much a man covets their grace, no matter how golden the bars. They are far more beautiful soaring free. Heartbreakingly beautiful.”
Lois McMaster Bujold (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source