Beauty Contest Quotes:

Life is not a beauty contest, some [ugly people] are great. What I hate is nasty, ugly people... the worst is ugly, short men. Women can be short, but for men it is impossible. It is something that they will not forgive in life... they are mean and they want to kill you.

- Karl Lagerfeld

topic: Hate, Mean, Men, Ugly People, Beauty Contest

Playing guitar is not a beauty contest.

- Ernie Isley

topic: Guitar, Playing Guitar, Contests, Beauty Contest

A whopping 89 percent of buyers start their home search online. How your house looks online is the modern equivalent of 'curb appeal.' Rent a wide-angle lens and good lighting, get rid of your clutter and post at least eight great photos to win the beauty contest.

- Barbara Corcoran

topic: Home, Winning, Eight, Good Lighting, Beauty Contest

They always say the Miss America Pageant isn't a beauty contest, it's really a scholarship program. If that's the case, why don't we just put all the contestants on 'Jeopardy!' and pick Miss America that way? At least you get the smartest one.

- Jay Leno

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: America, Missing, Way, Miss America, Contestants

Would you believe that I once entered a beauty contest? I must have been out of my mind. I not only came in last, I got 361 get-well cards.

- Phyllis Diller

source: "Phyllis Diller's File Of 53,000 Jokes". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. March 11, 2017.

topic: Get Well, Believe, Mind, Beauty Contest

And often it would be a woman who was in her 70s or 80s who would win the beauty contest, because bound feet never age.

- Lisa See

topic: Winning, Feet, Age, Beauty Contest

The Academy Awards are obscene, dirty . . . no better than a beauty contest.

- Dustin Hoffman

topic: Dirty, Awards, Contests, Academy Awards, Beauty Contest

I was in a beauty contest once. I not only came in last, I was hit in the mouth by Miss Congeniality.

- Phyllis Diller

source: "Legendary Comic Phyllis Diller Dies at 95" by Duane Byrge, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 20, 2012.

topic: Missing, Mouths, Lasts, Congeniality, Beauty Contest

One of the worst things [Donald Trump] said was about a woman in a beauty contest. He loves beauty contests, supporting them and hanging around them. And he called this woman "Miss Piggy." Then he called her "Miss Housekeeping," because she was Latina. Donald, she has a name.

- Hillary Clinton

source: Source: time.com

topic: Love Is, Names, Missing, Miss Piggy, Piggy

Elections are not a beauty contest. It is all about tolerance.

- Vladimir Franz

source: "Despite Face Tattoo Vladimir Franz Is Presidential Contender" by Dragon Jovanovic and Jilian Fama, abcnews.go.com. January 10, 2013.

topic: Tolerance, Election, Contests, Beauty Contest

It used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would have - I guess you'd call them beauty contests - where all of the women of a particular village or town would be seated behind these screens or curtains with only their feet showing.

- Lisa See

topic: Feet, Would Be, Village, Beauty Contest

The social [media channel] isn't about beauty contests and popularity contests. They're a distortion, a caricature of the real thing. It's about trust, connection, and community. That's what there's too little of in today's mediascape, despite all the hoopla surrounding social tools. The promise of the Internet wasn't merely to inflate relationships, without adding depth, resonance, and meaning. It was to fundamentally rewire people, communities, civil society, business, and the state — through thicker, stronger, more meaningful relationships. That's where the future of media lies.

- Umair Haque

topic: Meaningful, Real, Lying, Popularity Contest, Meaningful Relationship

I know that when a supersexy older girl with hips and breasts and nice hair wants to take off your glasses and to paint you a smoky eye she's merely trying to enroll you in a beauty contest she's already won. It's a kind of slummy, condescending gesture, like when rich people ask poor people where they summer. To me, this smacks of a blatant, insensitive "let them eat cake" type of chauvinism.

- Chuck Palahniuk

source: "Damned". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2011.

topic: Chauvinism, Smack, Already Won, Beauty Contest

What I hate most in life are people who are not really the peach of the day but who want to be young and sexy. You can fool nobody. There is a moment when you have to accept that somebody else is younger and fresher and hotter. Life is not a beauty contest.

- Karl Lagerfeld

topic: Sexy, Hate, People, Beauty Contest

I thought it might be a good move to get into a beauty contest so I tried for Miss Pennsylvania and won. I think that helped me get noticed, at least by the people of Pennsylvania.

- Sharon Stone

topic: Beauty, Moving, Thinking, Beauty Contest

It's such an honor to be representing the USA in an international beauty contest in spite of all the tragedy that's happened in this country lately. I really hope that this this will raise everybody's spirits a little.

- Olivia Culpo

topic: Country, Usa, Honor, Beauty Contest

Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it inspires is what counts.

- Philip Roth

source: Philip Roth, George John Searles (1992). “Conversations with Philip Roth”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

topic: Inspire, Audacity, Literature, Beauty Contest