Ugliness Quotes

Better an ugly face than an ugly mind.
James Ellis

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

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

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

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

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

Absolute and entire ugliness is rare.

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.

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

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

Nobody's sweetheart is ugly.
J. J. Vade

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

The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.
Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Beauty is lyrical. Ugliness is elegiac.

The ugly can achieve an absoluteness beyond the reach of beauty.

There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.
Helena Rubenstein

The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.







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