“At a small table, sitting very upright, was one of the ugliest old ladies he had ever seen. It was an ugliness… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
It is just as important to bring people the evidence of the beauty of the world of nature and of man as… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Whatever your objective in life may be, never use violence to get it! Violence belongs to the Land of Evil; once you… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“Ook, though very clever, was the worst fighter in the tribe. That is how he ended up with Grot-Grot as his woman.… — Aussiescribbler Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an honest writer and show my ugliness as much as I showed my hopes or goodness. And that… — Jewel Copy Share Image
It's as if inside the White House the belief in Obama's inspirational charisma is still such that every time the ugliness of… — Tina Brown 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
If I look in the mirror when I get up or before going to bed at night, I see a man of… — Andrea Pirlo Copy Share Image
All that causes one man to differ from another is a very slight thing. What is it that is the origin of… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
“Her eyes, always sad, now looked into the mirror with particular hopelessness. "She's flattering me," thought the princess, and she turned away… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question - How can beauty and ugliness… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
A society where the simple many obey the few seers can live; a society where all were seers could live even more… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
To think better, to think like the best humans, we are probably going to have to learn again to judge a person's… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Normal humanity has only the courage to react to the usual gradations that range from the beautiful to the ugly, which in… — José Donoso Copy Share Image
“I feel ugly” I said and you looked at me as if I spoke a different language. There are things you will… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
Fashion rests upon folly. Art rests upon law. Fashion is ephemeral. Art is eternal. Indeed what is a fashion really? A fashion… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Oh, dear Hazel.” Aphrodite folded her fan. “Such optimism, yet you have heartrending days ahead of you. Of course war is coming.… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I see so much beauty in people and in the world and when I see ugliness I try to either expose it… — Rose McGowan Copy Share Image
Absolute ugliness is admitted as rarely as perfect beauty; but degrees of it more or less distinct are associated with whatever has… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Mistress of love or of hate, occult science can dispense paradise or hell at its pleasure to human hearts; it disposes of… — Eliphas Levi Copy Share Image
How can Life grant us boon of living, compensateFor dull grey ugliness and pregnant hateUnless we dareThe soul's dominion? Each time we… — Amelia Earhart Copy Share Image
“Not so clever, are you, Koja? No one will have you to visit and you are covered in scabs. You are even… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
We create our own government. We are responsible for its beauty and for its ugliness. We are responsible for its glories and… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It is curious that nearly all the great fortunes are made by turning beautiful things into ugly ones. Making beauty out of… — E. Nesbit 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
With that height, plus a face of an ugliness so transcendant as to be grotesquely beautiful, it was obvious why she had… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“If she were to smile, her face would crack like an eggshell. There must be a school for ugliness, thinks Simon, where… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Maeterlinck says that compared with ordinary truths mystic truths have strange privileges - they can neither age nor die. Beauty is eternal… — Florence Earle Coates Copy Share Image
“And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What a lovely place this world would be if only people would feel affection for everyone else, and all the ugliness of… — Sayo Masuda Copy Share Image
My idea was to chose an object that wouldn't attract me, either by its beauty or by its ugliness. To find a… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
“Scientific vocabulary can be so weird. The Large Hadron Collider at CERN has just recorded an example of a subatomic particle called… — Michael Quinion Copy Share Image
once you laugh at you own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If you're good,… — Goldie Hawn Copy Share Image
They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God!… — Imelda Marcos Copy Share Image
“Our evolution depends on our memory. If we keep forgetting the mistakes of the past, only to keep repeating them, then we… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“Isn’t that the way God works? She’d thought. He takes the things in our lives that are ugly, disgusting, and downright wicked,… — J.E.B. Spredemann Copy Share Image
People who are obsessed are raw with God; they do not attempt to mask the ugliness of their sins or their failures.… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
The more clearly we recognize how deep our commitment to self-protection operates in our relational style and the more courageously we face… — Larry Crabb Copy Share Image
When the eye fails to find beauty-alias solace-it commands the body to create it, or, failing that, adjusts itself to perceive virtue… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
