Pageant Quotes

Even the most understated ceremony involves a certain respect for ritual and pageantry. No one plays more of a significant role than the bride's attendants.

Pageantry is a visionary art which has been used, from time immemorial, as a political instrument.

A wedding is a funeral which masquerades as a feast. And the greater the pageantry, the deeper the savagery.

If your religion does not make you holy, it will damn you. It is simply painted pageantry to go to hell in.

You'll catch your death of cold. Clouseau: Yes, yes I probably will but . . . its all part of life's rich pageantry, you kneau.

And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse

Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out.

History is a pageant and not a philosophy.

I accidentally entered a youth pageant when I was 14. That's like a beauty pageant, but without the beauty. It was terrible.

Trump is probably disrespected women all of his life. His alignment with women has been with his beauty pageants. And those women said he walked into the rooms where they were changing clothes and he thought that was fine and he had a right to do it. I think that's reflected in his leadership and public policy.

O blissful poverty! Nature, too partial! to thy lot assigns Health, freedom, innocence, and downy peace, Her real goods; and only mocks the great, With empty pageantries!

I am old enough to know that a red carpet is just a rug.

There's a certain level of pageantry with 'Idol,' and in order to work the show, you kind of have to feed into it.

The truth isn't meant to be pretty, that's for beauty pageants.

In reality I feel as horrified as a ghetto Jew watching the rise of National Socialism.

When I got to be about 16,17 I got into a beauty pageant and I was allowed to start playing around with makeup.

The pageant of a former hour, Is Beauty in the Grave.

I must be very clear in one thing... Being a pageant girl is not who I am or what defines me.

Habitats keep evolving new pageants of species, and we shouldn't interfere.

Trump says that if he's elected, he won't let the presidency interfere with the Miss Universe pageant.

Athletics: it's a wonderful thing, it's a spell-binding thing, nothing in life has quite as much pageantry, as much emotion within a finite time frame, it's incredibly exciting.

I'm old enough to know that a red carpet's just a rug, and I've been able to enjoy the pageantry without letting it go to my head.