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Ugliness Quotes

Now I know the full power of evil. It makes ugliness seem beautiful and goodness seem ugly and weak.

August Strindberg

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Joseph Brodsky

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

The only ugliness is that of the heart, seen through the face. And though beauty be obvious, the only loveliness is invisible.

Herman Melville

There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough.

Josh Billings

There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough

Josh Billings

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

Elie Wiesel

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

Oscar Wilde

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 or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.

Jane Jacobs

There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough”

Josh Billings

Absolute and entire ugliness is rare.

John Ruskin

From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world.

Andrei Platonov

Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.

Dodie Smith

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.

H. G. Wells

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.

Serge Gainsbourg

It's nothing to be born ugly. Sensibly, the ugly woman comes to terms with her ugliness and exploits it as a grace of nature. To become ugly means the beginning of a calamity, self-willed most of the time.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

He was ugly, himself. Weird-ugly. But ugliness in a man doesn't matter, much. Ugliness in a woman is her life.

Joyce Carol Oates

Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity.

L.M. Montgomery

Beauty is lyrical. Ugliness is elegiac.

Mason Cooley

Ugliness is better than beauty. It lasts longer and in the end, gravity will get us all.

Johnny Depp

The secret of ugliness consists of not irregularity, but in being uninteresting

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness.

Massimo Vignelli

I love it when ugliness is beautiful. I love character flaws.

Marcia Gay Harden