(853 quotes found)
“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
“The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.”
James Arthur Baldwin
“Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful - It's made for the losers”
Rita Mae Brown
“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
“Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.”
Margaret Cho
“Prudence is a rich ugly old maid courted by Incapacity.”
William Blake
“When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother.”
Rodney Dangerfield
“I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.”
Shakira
“The great tragedy of Science: the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact”
Thomas Henry Huxley
“Sweet are the uses of adversity; Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head”
William Shakespeare
