Imelda Marcos: Quotes about beauty

Imelda Marcos is Former First Lady of the Philippines. Explore interesting quotes on beauty.

Imelda Marcos: 54 quotes2 likes

“They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God, all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes.”

Statement made upon opening the Marikina City Footwear Museum in Manila, as quoted in "Homage to Imelda's shoes" at BBC News (16 February 2001) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1173911.stm.

“It is not expensive to be beautiful. It takes only a little effort to be presentable and beautiful. But it takes some effort. And unfortunately people think of beauty as luxury, beauty as frivolity, … or extravagance. Beauty is a discipline, beauty is art, is harmony, in the ideological sense and in the theological sense, beauty is God and love made real. And the ultimate reach in this world is beauty.”

Imelda Marcos

Quoted in "Imelda (2003).

“The Philippines is where Asia wears a smile. Beautiful products can only be made by happy people.”

Imelda Marcos

At a press conference in Bloomingdale's, at the opening of the Philippine exhibit, cited in Ang Katipunan (May 1982).

“Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.”

Imelda Marcos

As quoted in "Homage to Imelda's shoes" at BBC News (16 February 2001)).

“I seem to be able to only see the positive things in life and the beautiful things in life and when I see, for instance, garbage or ugliness, then I turn my back or I seem to be able to skip it.”

Imelda Marcos

Quoted in "Imelda (2003).

“I've always maintained that the only things to uphold are the good, the true and the beautiful. We have to reject what's ugly.”

Imelda Marcos

"Her Greatest Admirer" in TIME (2004)

“The best compliment I ever got in my life came from Chairman Mao of China. When I went there, at a time when nobody wanted to touch China with a 10-foot pole, Mao told me that I'm beautiful because I'm a natural, and he said natural is perfection. So, no character assassination can diminish me and my perfection.”

Imelda Marcos

"Her Greatest Admirer" in TIME (2004)