Ugliness Quotes

296 Ugliness quotes by 246 unique authors

There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough. — Josh Billings
The lyric abstrusities of Auden ring mystically down the circular canals of my ear and it begins to look like snow. The good gray conservative… — Sylvia Plath
It is because every one tinder Heaven recognizes beauty as beauty that the idea of ugliness exists. — Laozi
When the eye fails to find beauty-alias solace-it commands the body to create it, or, failing that, adjusts itself to perceive virtue in ugliness. — Joseph Brodsky
Nobody ever discovered ugliness through photographs. But many, through photographs, have discovered beauty. — Susan Sontag
The conviction of tragedy that rises out of his [John Dos Passos's] work is the steady protest of a sensitive democratic conscience against the tyranny… — Alfred Kazin
Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story… — John Ortberg
The only sin is ugliness, and if we believed this with all our being, all other activities of the human spirit could be left to… — Herbert Read
Jesus could weep. Sometimes when you look at the ugliness that makes you weep, you know that the heart of God is also weeping. Jesus… — Desmond Tutu
A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should not use one… — Mo Yan
You take me in, no questions asked. You strip away the ugliness that surrounds me. Are you an angel? — Sarah McLachlan
Let me look at the foulness and ugliness of my body. Let me see myself as an ulcerous sore running with every horrible and disgusting… — Ignatius Loyola
I was amazed and upset by the looks I got just walking around the studio... It illuminates the ugliness and the beauty that exists within… — Gerard Butler
Mean people are really just sad people. They hurt others because they are hurting. Every person is born beautiful, and much of the ugliness in… — Bryant H. McGill
Any beauty you see in me is only a reflection of Him, any ugliness, a reflection of my self. — Yasmin Mogahed
We create our own government. We are responsible for its beauty and for its ugliness. We are responsible for its glories and for its failures… — Charlie Pierce
There is no such thing as happiness. Life bends joy and pain, beauty and ugliness, in such a way that no one may isolate them.… — Jean Toomer
The writing has been on the wall for some years now, but we are a nation illiterate in the language of the wall. The writing… — Barbara Kingsolver
For every monarchy overthrown the sky becomes less brilliant, because it loses a star. A republic is ugliness set free. — Anatole France
Absolute and entire ugliness is rare. — John Ruskin
The reproach that superficial people formulate against Manet, that whereas once he painted ugliness, now he paints vulgarity, falls harmlessly to the ground, when we… — Stephane Mallarme
What makes sovereign ugliness are our conventions. — Eugene Delacroix
We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order... — Plotinus
Art once made a cult of beauty. Now we have a cult of ugliness instead. This has made art into an elaborate joke, one which… — Roger Scruton
Applied good taste is a mark of good citizenship. Ugliness is a from of anarchy.. ugly cities, ugly advertising, ugly lives produce bad citizens. — Lester Beall

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