The truth--a hideous spectacle!

I shall pray God to send charity into this hideous world, and sympathy for the weak, and love for the unhappy and unfortunate. I…

— John Wyndham

The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden…Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are…

— Octave Mirbeau

The history of woman is the history of the continued and universal oppression of one sex by the other. The emancipation of woman is…

— Tennessee Celeste Claflin

“The battle had been as hideous as you might expect between one side who were simply not afraid to die and another who regarded…

— Paul Hoffman

The slave trade was globalism. Why people insist that globalism, after its hideous history, is a good thing, I do not know.

— Jamaica Kincaid

Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.

— David Foster Wallace

Kindness is the color in the cathedral window which woven into beautiful characters shuts out the hideous sights of a world which is all…

— James Leonard Gordon

The more hideous the mental contortions, the greater the delight and bravos of the mass.

— Emma Goldman

On Bill Clinton: "If left to my own devices, I'd spend all my time pointing out that he's weaker than bus-station chili. But the…

— Molly Ivins

Am I hideous, Jane? Very, sir: you always were, you know.

— Charlotte Bronte

“When the shine is wearing off and the underlying cracks of a garlanded lifestyle become painfully apparent, reality may inexorably take its toll and…

— Erik Pevernagie

Quite the ugliest face I ever saw was that of a woman whom the world called beautiful. Through its silver veil the evil and…

— John Greenleaf Whittier

In Miami they're building all these hideous monstrosities. It's just so easy to be an architect, once you've got the ability to do your…

— Barbara Hulanicki

“Javert, though hideous, was not ignoble.”

— Victor Hugo

From Satan or from God, what matter? Angel or Siren, What matter, if you make - fairy with velvet eyes, Rhythm, perfume, light, o…

— Charles Baudelaire