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Beauty: More Than Meets Eye
Beauty is a quality, present in both tangible and intangible forms, that evokes pleasure, admiration, and a profound sense of connection. It is meaningful because it inspires awe, fosters creativity, elevates experience, and provides a vital reminder of harmony and balance in a world often characterized by chaos.
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# Beauty & Themes
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Context: • William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost (c. 1595-96), Act IV, scene 3, line 244
• Source: Wikiquote: "Beauty" (S)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Beauty" (S)
“Beauty doth varnish age.”
— Unknown
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Context: • John Greenleaf Whittier, Dedication to Songs of Labor, &c. (1850), copied from Emerson
• Source: Wikiquote: "Beauty" (W)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Beauty" (W)
“Beauty is its own excuse.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Lady of Lyons (1838), Act II, scene I
• Source: Wikiquote: "Beauty" (B)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Beauty" (B)
“Rank is a great beautifier.”
— Unknown
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Context: • William Congreve, The Way of the World (1700), Act II, scene 2
• Source: Wikiquote: "Beauty" (C)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Beauty" (C)
“Beauty is the lover's gift.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot (1868), Part 3, Chapter 5. Frederick Whishaw, trans. (London: Vizetelly & Co., 1887), p. 257
• Source: Wikiquote: "Beauty" (D)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Beauty" (D)
“Beauty would save the world.”
— Unknown
# Beauty & Beauty pageant contestants
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Steffi van Wyk" (Quotes)
“An experience is much better than any gift.”
— Steffi van Wyk
Beauty pageant contestants
Models from Namibia
Living people
Women from NamibiaU
Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Janelle "Penny" Commissiong" (Quotes)
“A person of colour was not a typical beauty.”
— Unknown
Miss Universe winners
Politicians
ModelsU
Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Janelle "Penny" Commissiong" (Quotes)
“In the quest for perfection the line keeps moving.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Janelle "Penny" Commissiong" (Quotes)
“Except we never saw a black contestant on the cover.”
— Unknown
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Context: • TRINIDAD & TOBAGO ASSOCIATION OF OTTAWA;30 July 2020,Source: Toronto Sun
• Source: Wikiquote: "Janelle "Penny" Commissiong" (Quotes)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Janelle "Penny" Commissiong" (Quotes)
“may help young people coming up have a sense of our history.”
— Unknown
# Beauty & Living people
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Claudia Henkel" (Quotes)
“I don’t even have words to describe it”
— Claudia Henkel
Beauty queen
Miss South Africa
Women from South Africa
People from PretoriaS
Context: • Steffi takes the lead at Miss World By, The Namibian 16 December 2015.Retrieved 31 March 2025
• Source: Wikiquote: "Steffi van Wyk" (Quotes)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Steffi van Wyk" (Quotes)
“I am so proud to have won this, not just for me, but for my country.”
— Steffi van Wyk
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Janelle "Penny" Commissiong" (Quotes)
“Only when we got there did I realize that I was really in a competition.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Basetsana Kumalo" (Quotes)
“She’s strong and stands tall but also gentle, loving and compassionate.”
— Unknown
Actresses from South Africa
Television personalities
BusinesswomenL
Context: • Former poultry farmer Leah Kalanguka crowned Miss Uganda 2014. News18. (26 October 2014)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Leah Kalanguka" (Quotes)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Leah Kalanguka" (Quotes)
“The youth will love agriculture because it goes hand in hand with beauty.”
— Leah Kalanguka
Actresses from Uganda
Models from Uganda
1991 births# Beauty & Models
Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Wendy Fitzwilliam" (Quotes)
“You must be diligent and follow a daily regime with dedicated discipline.”
— Wendy Fitzwilliam
Lawyers from Trinidad and Tobago
Singers from Trinidad and TobagoQ
Context: • Quiin Abenakyo: African beauty with a purpose. Theeastafrican. (February 15, 2019)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Quiin Abenakyo" (Quotes)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Quiin Abenakyo" (Quotes)
“I believe when you educate a girl, you are educating the entire community.”
— Quiin Abenakyo
Women from Uganda
Context: • Mwima: Interracial relationships are not all about money. Monitor. (January 4, 2021)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Dora Mwima" (Quotes)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Dora Mwima" (Quotes)
“We kept our wedding low key because we wanted to enjoy our day peacefully.”
— Dora Mwima
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Janelle "Penny" Commissiong" (Quotes)
“It was a hostile industry, but over the years I think I earned their respect.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Steffi van Wyk" (Quotes)
“I love to cook and I make mean wraps. I don’t like cooking for myself though.”
— Steffi van Wyk
# Beauty & Miss Universe winners
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Janelle "Penny" Commissiong" (Quotes)
“There are so many pre-conceived notions of what '60' is first and foremost 'old'.”
— Unknown
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Context: • This is 60,2013-07-20,by Debbie Jacob
• Source: Wikiquote: "Janelle "Penny" Commissiong" (Quotes)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Janelle "Penny" Commissiong" (Quotes)
“Responsibility dictates behaviour and winning never dictated how I lived my life.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Janelle "Penny" Commissiong" (Quotes)
“looks."One of the things I'm thankful for is that I have all my original body parts.”
— Unknown
Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Wendy Fitzwilliam" (Quotes)
“And you also have to learn how to pull back and find that time for you, every single day.”
— Wendy Fitzwilliam
Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Wendy Fitzwilliam" (Quotes)
“Love is about being selfless. It’s about losing control in the healthiest way imaginable.”
— Wendy Fitzwilliam
More Quotes
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Beauty and the Beast (2017 film)" (Lumière)
“The honor was mine.”
— Unknown
Beauty and the Beast (franchise)
2017 films
2010s American films
Adventure filmsU
Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Beauty and the Beast (2017 film)" (Belle)
“I told you to go away.”
— Unknown
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Context: • William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost (c. 1595-96), Act IV, scene 3, line 244
• Source: Wikiquote: "Beauty" (S)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Beauty" (S)
“Beauty doth varnish age.”
— Unknown
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Context: • John Greenleaf Whittier, Dedication to Songs of Labor, &c. (1850), copied from Emerson
• Source: Wikiquote: "Beauty" (W)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Beauty" (W)
“Beauty is its own excuse.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The Lady of Lyons (1838), Act II, scene I
• Source: Wikiquote: "Beauty" (B)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Beauty" (B)
“Rank is a great beautifier.”
— Unknown
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Context: • William Congreve, The Way of the World (1700), Act II, scene 2
• Source: Wikiquote: "Beauty" (C)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Beauty" (C)
“Beauty is the lover's gift.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot (1868), Part 3, Chapter 5. Frederick Whishaw, trans. (London: Vizetelly & Co., 1887), p. 257
• Source: Wikiquote: "Beauty" (D)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Beauty" (D)
“Beauty would save the world.”
— Unknown
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Context: • George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum (1651)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Beauty" (H)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Beauty" (H)
“Beauty draws more than oxen.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Beauty and the Beast (2017 film)" (Lumière)
“Cogsworth, we beat the clock!”
— Unknown
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Context: • Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield (1768), Chapter I. Used by Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones (1749), Book IV, Chapter XII
• Source: Wikiquote: "Beauty" (G)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Beauty" (G)
“Handsome is that handsome does.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Beauty", The Conduct of Life (1860)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Beauty" (E)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Beauty" (E)
“Beauty without expression tires.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Trust not too much to beauty.''
• Virgil, Eclogæ (c. 42-38 BC), II. 17. Reported in John Langston, Lusus Poeticus Latino-Anglicanus (London, 1675), p. 69
• Source: Wikiquote: "Beauty" (V)
• Virgil, Eclogæ (c. 42-38 BC), II. 17. Reported in John Langston, Lusus Poeticus Latino-Anglicanus (London, 1675), p. 69
• Source: Wikiquote: "Beauty" (V)
“Nimium ne crede colori.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Source: Wikiquote: "Beauty and the Beast (1991 film)" (Belle)
“He's no monster, Gaston. You are!”
— Unknown
1991 animated films
1991 American animated films
Traditionally animated filmsU
Context: • William Shakespeare, Othello (c. 1603), Act V, Scene 1
• Source: Wikiquote: "Beauty" (S)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Beauty" (S)
“He hath a daily beauty in his life.”
— Unknown
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Context: • William Wordsworth, "Three Years She Grew in Sun and Shower" (1798)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Beauty" (W)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Beauty" (W)
“And beauty born of murmuring sound.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Jean Anouilh, Mademoiselle Colombe (1950), Act 2, scene 2, trans. Louis Kronenberger
• Source: Wikiquote: "Beauty" (A)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Beauty" (A)
“Things are beautiful if you love them.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Kelly Clarkson, "A Moment Like This" (2002) http://www.metrolyrics.com/a-moment-like-this-lyrics-kelly-clarkson.html
• Source: Wikiquote: "Beauty" (C)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Beauty" (C)
“Everything changes, but beauty remains.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Homer, The Odyssey, Book VI, line 22. Pope's translation
• Source: Wikiquote: "Beauty" (H)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Beauty" (H)
“A heaven of charms divine Nausicaa lay.”
— Unknown
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Context: • André Breton, Nadja (1928), last sentence
• Source: Wikiquote: "Beauty" (B)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Beauty" (B)
“Beauty will be convulsive or not at all.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature (1836), Ch. 3: "Beauty"
• Source: Wikiquote: "Beauty" (E)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Beauty" (E)
“Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.”
— Unknown
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