Ugliness Quotes

Thomas was like a drug, so smooth and overwhelming that he took one up a level in their emotions just by watching him and listening to him. He was a natural entertainer, filled with talent and knowledge on many subjects and a keen sense of the arts and music. I admired him as he performed for us, and I forgot the ugliness again

~ Sara Niles

Life is very tough and fragile at the same time, it never backs down or surrenders, but will break open to reveal its beauty and ugliness. As a evening primrose that blooms in the flooding moonlight, just before being trampled upon underfoot by the four-legged frost of the night.

~ Anthony Liccione

(One character on another:)Don't you know that I passionately dote on every chin on his face?

~ Dorothy L. Sayers

What is beauty or ugliness but a false front that prompts man to make assumptions rather than delving deeper.

~ Kristen Callihan

Imperfections don’t make something ugly.

~ Amy Neftzger

When you see the ugliness behind the tears of another person, it makes you take a closer look at your own.

~ John D. Macdonald

The sins of my sex... A woman who is ugly is pitiable, but a man who is ugly is forgiven.

~ Michelle Franklin

The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf. It's almost a law.

~ H.g. Wells

That's the world out there, little green apples and infectious disease.

~ Don Delillo

A stab had clearly once been made at de-uglifying these public spaces by painting a corridor a jaunty yellow. This was because, it turned out, babies come here to have their brains tested and someone thought the yellow might calm them. But I couldn’t see how. Such was the oppressive ugliness of this building it would have been like sticking a red nose on a cadaver and calling it Ronald McDonald.

~ Jon Ronson

It was the first time I saw the look on the face of the people I robbed: it was ugly. I was the cause of such ugliness, and the only thing that made me feel was a cruel pleasure which, I thought, was bound to transfigure my own face, to make me resplendent. I was then 23 years old. From that moment on, I felt capable of advancing in cruelty.

~ Jean Genet

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

~ Douglas Horton

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

~ Jean Rostand

Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.

~ Jerry Saltz

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

~ Bono