(853 quotes found)
“There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough”
Josh Billings
“Applied good taste is a mark of good citizenship. Ugliness is a from of anarchy... ugly cities, ugly advertising, ugly lives produce bad citizens.”
Lester Beall
“Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.”
Dodie Smith
“It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.”
Oscar Wilde
“All government is an ugly necessity.”
G. K. Chesterton
“I was so skinny, they gave me the nickname stechetto - the stick. I was tall, thin, ugly and dark like an Arab girl. I looked strange. All eyes. No flesh on my bones.”
Sophia Loren
“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.”
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
“I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.”
Salvador Dalí
“In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.”
“Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.”
Thomas Henry Huxley
