“Shall we their fond pageant see? Lord, what fools these mortals be!” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
All our pride is but a jest. None are worst and none are best. Grief and hope and joy and fear Play… — Thomas Campion Copy Share Image
I resonate with everything that the Miss Universe organisation stands for, especially empowering women across the globe. — Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters Copy Share Image
Hosting the Miss America Pageant is a job all TV hosts dream of one day holding. — Chris Harrison Copy Share Image
When you become a pageant winner, you become a known face. So, winning a pageant helps us in making inroads into the… — Urvashi Rautela Copy Share Image
I'm getting really into the pageant life! I think I might run for Miss America lol. — Chanel Dudley Copy Share Image
The relevance of beauty pageants in the Philippines is that it gives people hope. — Pia Wurtzbach Copy Share Image
I would never do another one but at the time it was fun. (On entering a beauty pageant contest) — Tiffani Thiessen Copy Share Image
I do an international beauty pageant called Queen of the Universe for UNESCO, and what we do is we build kindergartens around… — Joyce Giraud Copy Share Image
I was always focused on my studies and wanted to be a doctor, but like every girl, I would also dream to… — Manushi Chhillar Copy Share Image
Bra-burning never happened. It was completely made up by the media. A couple of women protesting a Miss America pageant threw some… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
My small jobs were basically... cut a ribbon somewhere or fly to be a judge in some pageant in Darjeeling. It was… — Dino Morea Copy Share Image
As Miss World, you are a face for beauty with a purpose. You can't just be beautiful. You have to have the… — Manushi Chhillar Copy Share Image
I saw pageants as a way to be a role model. I think that was always very important to me, to live… — Hannah Brown Copy Share Image
Captain of our fairy band, Helena is here at hand, And the youth, mistook by me, Pleading for a lover's fee. Shall… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The pageant was such a fluke. I mean, I was living in an orphanage, and my foster mother bet me $150 to… — Charlotte Ayanna Copy Share Image
Victims receive attention and social clout, so why not play the victim role? This has been going on for quite some time,… — Brett Cooper Copy Share Image
They are, as it were, train-bearers in the pageant of life, and hold a glass up to humanity, frailer than itself. We… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
True feminine beauty is not a complicated formula involving hundreds of rules to remember. It is not something that requires spending two… — Leslie Ludy Copy Share Image
When I won Miss World, I wasn't even 18, and I only remember, like, I thought of it as a day in… — Priyanka Chopra Copy Share Image
When people watch me on TV, they see part of my life. I wanted to let them know the real me behind… — Gretchen Carlson Copy Share Image
Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
All the world's a stage. P.T. Barnum: It becomes a circus. But circuses or street pageants or parades have always been useful… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I hope to see women thriving and happy, loving what they're doing, and being in control and powerful of what they create.… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
My ancestors fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War; I was raised in Natchez, Miss.; I performed in the Confederate Pageant… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
I accidentally entered a youth pageant when I was 14. That's like a beauty pageant, but without the beauty. It was terrible. — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
Before I won Miss Diva in 2015, I had won the pageant once before in 2012. Back then, it was called Miss Universe India. — Urvashi Rautela Copy Share Image
Only the likes of Piers Morgan would be opposed to a Miss America contest that promises to be more 'empowering' and 'inclusive.' — Bari Weiss Copy Share Image
I kind of like to think of myself as the bad girl Olympian that would get kicked out of the Miss America… — Ronda Rousey Copy Share Image
Habitats keep evolving new pageants of species, and we shouldn't interfere. — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Miss America is a scholarship pageant, and they actually define themselves as a talent pageant. — Shanna Moakler Copy Share Image
Its high school not a beauty pageant. Stop worrying bout wat you're goin to look like n front of the boys and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you think beauty pageants are all about perfections, then I am sorry to say, it is not like that. — Harnaaz Sandhu Copy Share Image
I may now carry the sash of Miss Universe, but I'll forever be your Miss Philippines. — Catriona Gray Copy Share Image
At times school sucks so much that I think, why can't I be Honey Boo Boo? I'd be happily chubby and rollin'… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
