Critics Quote by Stephane Mallarme

“According to Proust, one proof that we are reading a major new writer is that his writing immediately strikes us as ugly. Only minor…

— Adam Kirsch

“For as we would wish that a painter who is to draw a beautiful face, in which there is yet some imperfection, should neither…

— Plutarch

For all the idealism that propels him through the story, if you read between the lines you may see that at a moment which…

— James Vance

“Professor Manley begins his first day of Uglification class by explaining why villains must be ugly to succeed. Ugliness releases you from the surface…

— Soman Chainani

“Pale beauty stands aghast,” he said, “at the vulgar ugliness of men.”

— Tanith Lee

Few persons comprehend the power of ugliness.

— Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau

The wretched beings depicted by Millet touch us profoundly because he loved them profoundly. They have nothing in common with vulgar ugliness. Beauty will…

— Jules Breton

“It was one of the few things he had to believe in, the possibility of beauty when faced with the reality of so much…

— Cassandra Clare

“...[Nature] ever bearing witness against man that he has deliberately chosen ugliness instead of beauty...”

— William Morris

The repercussion of ugliness is endless.

— Massimo Vignelli

Nothing is uglier than the sinner, nothing so leprous or fetid; the scar of his crimes is still raw, and he stinks like the…

— Prudentius

To the eye of enmity virtue appears the ugliest blemish.

— Saadi