Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: but…

With poverty everything becomes frightful.

— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

He gives only the worthless gold who gives from a sense of duty.

— James Russell Lowell

The idea of beauty which man creates for himself imprints itself on his whole attire, crumples or stiffens his dress, rounds off or squares…

— Charles Baudelaire

My life has been my inspiration through all its beauty and ugliness.

— Chanda Kaushik

It is curious that nearly all the great fortunes are made by turning beautiful things into ugly ones. Making beauty out of ugliness is…

— E. Nesbit

Both beauty and ugliness takes your attention the only difference is the point of view.

— Anonymous

Paris, like every pretty woman, is subject to inexplicable whims of beauty and ugliness.

— Honore de Balzac

The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not…

— Thomas Hardy

Whats beauty anyway but ugliness if it hurts you?

— Jean Toomer

I prefer ugliness to beauty, because ugliness endures.

— Serge Gainsbourg

“There’s beauty and there’s ugliness. You have to love both.”

— Sandra Harner

“Truth is Bitter & It's the Real Beauty in Ugliness.”

— Gollapalli Nithin Kumar

“You have to look past the beauty to see the ugliness.”

— Nath Jones

Beauty and ugliness are only possible in the light. Common sense also survives in the dark. So do crassness, ignorance, dumbness!...

— Mariana Fulger

Men and women make their own beauty or their own ugliness. Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton speaks in one of his novels of a man…

— Alexander Smith