Ugliness Quotes

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. (Oscar Wilde)
Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness? View quote
Anna Freud
In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness. View quote
Colette
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 is the measure of imperfection. View quote
H. G. Wells
One mans justice is anothers injustice one mans beauty anothers ugliness one mans wisdom anothers folly. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you see the ugliness behind the tears of another person, it makes you take a closer look at your own. View quote
John D. MacDonald
That was' one time when my technique absolutely deserted me, I must admit. There was a wax face that he had created himself to cover his own ugliness. I was in his clutches and I had to hit him in the face. View quote
Fay Wray
The rationalism of the creative minds was tempered by abundant fantasies, and the supreme beauty of the monuments was probably spoiled by the circumambient vanities and ugliness; in a few cases the Greeks came as close to perfection as it was possible to do, yet they were human and imperfect. View quote
George Sarton
The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among things done, but among things willed. View quote
Thomas Hardy
Immature people falling in love destroy each other's freedom, create a bondage, make a prison. Mature persons in love help each other to be free; they help each other to destroy all sorts of bondages. And when love flows with freedom there is beauty. When love flows with dependence there is ugliness. View quote
Rajneesh
I'm not that obsessed with making representations of ugliness. Everything I've seen is beautiful. (Otto Dix)
As a painter, cursed or blessed with a terrible and vital sensuousness, I must look for wisdom with my eyes. I repeat, with my eyes, for nothing could be more ridiculous or irrelevant than a 'philosophical conception' painted purely intellectually without the terrible fury of the senses grasping each visible form of beauty and ugliness. View quote
Max Beckmann
once you laugh at you own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If you're good, you can fill up those openings with something positive. Mabye........ combat some the ugliness in the world. View quote
Goldie Hawn
Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: But with poverty everything becomes frightful. View quote
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
No, In fairy tales When to the ill-starred Prince the lady says 'I love you!' all his ugliness fades fast But I remain the same, up to the last! View quote
Edmond Rostand
Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness. View quote
Ouida
I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness. View quote
Imelda Marcos
Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued. View quote
Jean Rostand
[Beauty is] "Perfection of rhythm, balanced perfection of rhythm. Everything in Nature is expressed by rhythmic waves of light. Every thought and action is a light-wave of thought and action. If one interprets the God within one, one's thoughts and actions must be balanced rhythmic waves. Ugliness, fears, failures and diseases arise from unbalanced thoughts and actions. Therefore think beauty always if one desire vitality of body and happiness." View quote
Walter Russell
How can Life grant us boon of living, compensateFor dull grey ugliness and pregnant hateUnless we dareThe soul's dominion? Each time we make a choice, we payWith courage to behold the resistless day,And count it fair. (Amelia Earhart)
What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question, How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near? View quote
George MacDonald
Ugliness is the greatest of all sins. View quote
Isaac Leib Peretz
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 poison. View quote
Ignatius of Loyola
One can get used to ugliness, but never to negligence. View quote
Coco Chanel