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.

Herman Melville

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Jean Rostand

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

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.

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

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

Mason Cooley

There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.

Helena Rubenstein

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