Ugliness Quotes

296 Ugliness quotes by 246 unique authors

The strange, unbeautiful face beautiful in its ugliness; the perfect, beautiful face ugly in its perfection. — Eric Maisel
Art is a course in personal development that has no reliable diploma and no known end. The pursuit of art instructs in beauty as well… — Robert Genn
I wanted to be an honest writer and show my ugliness as much as I showed my hopes or goodness. And that really sculpted the… — Jewel
Old age brings along with its uglinesses the comfort that you will soon be out of it, - which ought to be a substantial relief… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man seldom questions the fact that ugliness and evil are to be found in the world. But he's never as ready to accept that life… — Leo Buscaglia
Hearts get infiltrated. Promises get broken. Rules get shattered. Love gets ugly. — Colleen Hoover
You have never seen ugliness in a happy face. — William John Locke
Everything in the world has its two faces, however. Weeds sometimes blossom into artful flowers. Beauty walks hand in hand with ugliness, sickness with health,… — Tiffany Baker
Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness? — Anna Freud
Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness. — Daniel Goleman
In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it. — Salvador Dali
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring… — Jane Jacobs
A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars… — Stephen King
They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not… — Imelda Marcos
I think 1973 was the nadir of fashion. When you watch the coverage from that era, you're struck by the astonishing ugliness of the clothes. — John Malkovich
Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are… — George Orwell
Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued. — Jean Rostand
Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness. — Jerry Saltz
America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious. — Goldwin Smith
I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can… — Baruch Spinoza
An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful. — Queen Victoria
There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness… — H.G. Wells
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. — Oscar Wilde

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