“Beauty is single. Only ugliness is multiple, and even then its multiplicity is soon exhausted.” — Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Copy Share Image
The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
The lyric abstrusities of Auden ring mystically down the circular canals of my ear and it begins to look like snow. The… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Beauty is, in some way, boring. Even if its concept changes through the ages... a beautiful object must always follow certain rules.… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“In the time of your life, live---so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
Many Introverts are also "highly sensitive," which sounds poetic, but is actually a technical term in psychology. If you are a sensitive… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Ugliness is a point of view; an ulcer is wonderful to a pathologist. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
Most American cities shop to their best advantage when seen from a height or from a distance, at a point where the… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
The great crime which the moneyed classes and promoters of industry committed in the palmy Victorian days was the condemning of the… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Aesthetic racism is almost always a sign of inexperience. Those who have not made their way far enough into the world of… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
It's taken me a long time to become the person I am, for all the ugliness to fall away. The rotten flesh… — Lynn Johnston Copy Share Image
I keep the shutters closed because I like to work in a hermetic environment. I like mirrors. When you look out of… — Sebastian Horsley Copy Share Image
Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
“A certain beauty in the world is no mark of God's favor, said Mr. Huss. There is no beauty one may not… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
Mitchell Sanders was right. For the common soldier, at least, war has the feel-the spiritual texture-of a great ghostly fog, thick and… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
“His face was stern, and much flushed. If he were really not in the habit of drinking rather more than was exactly… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order... — Plotinus Copy Share Image
Paris, like every pretty woman, is subject to inexplicable whims of beauty and ugliness. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I can understand the validity of showing people the ugliness of the world, but I also think there is a place for… — Chris Columbus Copy Share Image
Life is more than matter. If it were just matter, there would be no need for comfort. Matter does not feel comfort… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
