There are no ugly ducklings.

I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turning into confident ducks.

— Maeve Binchy

“To ugly ducklings everywhere, Don't worry about those fluffy yellow morons: They'll never get to be swans”

— Zoë Marriott

Ugly ducklings don't turn into swans and glide off down the lake. Whether your sunglasses are on or off, you only see the world…

— Bonnie Raitt

I am not beautiful. My mother once called me an ugly duckling. But,listed separately, I have a few good features.

— Audrey Hepburn

The thing about Janis is that she just looked so unique, an ugly duckling dressed as a princess, fearlessly so. Seeing her live was…

— Chrissie Hynde

This ugly duckling investment will likely need time - quarters, or even years - to blossom into a beautiful swan.

— Barry Ritholtz

Women who start out as ugly ducklings don't become beautiful swans. What they mainly become is confident ducks. They take charge of their lives.

— Maeve Binchy

In America, there's a programme called 'The Swan.' They take 12 ugly people and call them 'ugly ducklings.' They spend six months and have…

— Trinny Woodall

“It is both an irony and an indictment of the feminine mystique that it often forced the unhappy ones, the ugly ducklings, to find…

— Betty Friedan

Santa Claus was white and everything bad was black. The little ugly duckling was the black duck, and the black cat was the bad…

— Muhammad Ali

He giggled like a puppy being tickled by a kitten wearing a duckling costume.

— Jim Benton

My duchess,” James stated, his eyes sweeping the crowd with the air of a man who has ruled the waves. “She is not a…

— Eloisa James

I never dreamed of so much happiness when I was the Ugly Duckling!

— Hans Christian Andersen

Fate cast me to play the role of an ugly duckling with no promise of swanning. . . . I have played my life…

— Marie Dressler

I think it was something I inherited from my mother, who learned to do it. You know, I, like a baby duckling, was merely…

— Trevor Noah