Ugliness Quotes
How badly arranged the world is. What is the purpose of ugliness, suffering, sadness? Why our powerl...
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A certain beauty in the world is no mark of God's favor, said Mr. Huss. There is no beauty one may n...
Show MoreThe uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf. It's almost a law.
Intelligence and effort can be no compensation for ugliness.

It doesn't matter if you're born in a duck yard, so long as you are hatched from a swan's egg!

However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secre...
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It was the first time I saw the look on the face of the people I robbed: it was ugly. I was the caus...
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Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternati...
Show MoreWhen you see the ugliness behind the tears of another person, it makes you take a closer look at you...
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I just think of things as beautiful or not. Can't you understand? I don't think of good or bad. Just...
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Absolute and entire ugliness is rare.
He was ugly, himself. Weird-ugly. But ugliness in a man doesn't matter, much. Ugliness in a woman is...
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Her eyes, always sad, now looked into the mirror with particular hopelessness. "She's flattering me,...
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I know it's not clothes that make women beautiful or otherwise, nor beauty care, nor expensive cream...
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Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary...
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Not only have people stopped trying to be attractive when they are out among other people, but they ...
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Nothing is more important than that you see and love the beauty that is right in front of you, or el...
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Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror.

Trains and boxcars and the smell of coal and fire are not ugly to children. Ugliness is a concept th...
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No one who is good can ever be ugly.

To be beautiful, handsome, means that you possess a power which makes all smile upon and welcome you...
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Beauty! Wasn't that what mattered? Beauty was hardly a popular ideal at that jumpy moment in history...
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An ugliness unfurled in the moonlight and soft shadow and suffused the whole world. If I were an amo...
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The job of art is to chase ugliness away.
The mixture of the grotesque and the tragic is agreeable to the spirit, as are discords to the jaded...
Show MoreBeauty is in the eye of the beholder, which is a pity because this week the National Association of ...
Show MoreThis is what you get when you found a political system on the family values of Henry VIII. At a poin...
Show MoreEvery November of my boyhood, we put on red poppies and attended highly patriotic services in rememb...
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Every November of my boyhood, we put on red poppies and attended highly patriotic services in rememb...
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I hate slick and pretty things. I prefer mistakes and accidents. Which is why I like things like cut...
Show MoreThat's the world out there, little green apples and infectious disease.

(One character on another:)"Don't you know that I passionately dote on every chin on his face?

It is impossible for me to be an Anarchist, for I do not believe in the essential goodness of man. T...
Show MoreAt that moment the universe appeared to me a vast machine constructed only to produce evil. I almost...
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Look at the ugliness. Yet one has a feeling within one that blinds a man while he loves you. You, wi...
Show MoreIs there any creature on earth as unfortunate as an ugly woman? (wonders Lady Catelyn Stark)
