I sat ugliness in my lap and almost immediately got tired of it. — Salvador Dali
Only that which serves no end is beautiful; everything useful is ugly. — Théophile Gautier
Nothing is ugly as long as it is alive. — Coco Chanel
In a world of hunchbacks, a fine figure becomes a monstrosity. — Honoré de Balzac
If the face is the mirror of the soul, then there are people who have ugly souls. — Gustave Flaubert
Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wildlife. — Muhammad Ali
Some critics are quite like those people who show ugly teeth every time they want to laugh. — Joseph Joubert
Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it’s for something else. — Charles Bukowski
My face looks like a wedding cake left out in the rain. — W.H. Auden
When a woman isn’t beautiful, people always say: “You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.” — Anton Chekhov
An ugly sight, a man who is afraid. — Jean Anouilh
Only a male intellect clouded by the sexual drive could call the stunted, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped and short-legged sex the fair sex. — Arthur Schopenhauer
I don’t know what she looked like. Most farm women of her age were reduced by hard work and frequent child-bearing to a common denominator of plainness. — William Maxwell
Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome. — Golda Meir
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time. — Jean Cocteau
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. — Oscar Wilde
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. – Oscar Wilde
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone. — Dorothy Parker
In an ugly and unhappy world, the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness. — George Bernard Shaw
Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused. – Alan Cohen
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. – Goldie Hawn
You have never seen ugliness in a happy face. – William John Locke
One man’s justice is another’s injustice; one man’s beauty another’s ugliness; one man’s wisdom anpther’s folly. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty. – Dodie Smith
Few persons comprehend the power of ugliness. – Victor de Riqueti
It’s taken me a long time to become the person I am, for all the ugliness to fall away. The rotten flesh is gone, and the seed is there. I can touch that now. – Lynn Johnston
The opposite of love is not hate. It is fear. – Gary Zukav
All that causes one man to differ from another is a very slight thing. What is it that is the origin of beauty or ugliness, health or weakness, ability or stupidity? A slight difference in the organs, a little more or a little less bile. Yet this more or less is of infinite importance to men; and when they think otherwise they are mistaken. – Luc de Clapiers
Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness? – Anna Freud
I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused. – Baruch Spinoza
Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant. – Douglas Horton
Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone. – Redd Foxx
But there’s got to be an opening somewhere here in front of me. Through this maze of ugliness and greed. – Jakob Dylan
Ugliness is superior to beauty because it lasts longer. – Serge Gainsbourg
I prefer ugliness to beauty, because ugliness endures. – Serge Gainsbourg
The only ugliness is that of the heart, seen through the face. And though beauty be obvious, the only loveliness is invisible. – Herman Melville
Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness. – Daniel Goleman
Once you have started seeing the beauty of life, ugliness starts disappearing. If you start looking at life with joy, sadness starts disappearing. You cannot have heaven and hell together, you can have only one. It is your choice. – Rajneesh
What is commonly called ugliness in nature can in art become full of beauty. – Auguste Rodin
Better an ugly face than an ugly mind. – James Ellis
The wrong of unshapely things is a wrong too great to be told; I hunger to build them anew and sit on a green knoll apart. – William Butler Yeats
Few persons comprehend the power of ugliness. – Victor de Riqueti
I have no right to beauty. I had been condemned to masculine ugliness. – Renee Vivien
We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order. – Plotinus
Tremendous beauty and tremendous ugliness puts you on the outside of things. – Peter Bogdanovich
Elegance in objects is everybody’s right, and it shouldn’t cost more than ugliness. – Paola Antonelli
Wrinkles and ill-nature together made a woman hideous. – Nicolas Chamfort
Ugliness without tact is horrible. – Nathaniel Hawthorne
The repercussion of ugliness is endless. – Massimo Vignelli
My idea was to chose an object that wouldn’t attract me, either by its beauty or by its ugliness. To find a point of indifference in my looking at it, you see. – Marcel Duchamp
Absolute and entire ugliness is rare. – John Ruskin
Whats beauty anyway but ugliness if it hurts you? – Jean Toomer
Nothing is irredeemably ugly but sin. – Honore de Balzac
Happiness does away with ugliness, and even makes the beauty of beauty. – Henri Frederic Amiel
Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness. – Brent Weeks
What is commonly called ugliness in nature can in art become full of beauty. – Auguste Rodin
There is an ugliness in being paid for work one does not like. – Anais Nin
