(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
“Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand: Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!”
Edna St. Vincent Millay
“Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.”
William Wycherley
“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
“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
“You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.”
Frank Zappa
“Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves.”
Drew Barrymore
“I was amazed and upset by the looks I got just walking around the studio... It illuminates the ugliness and the beauty that exists within each of us, and that's what this story represents to me.”
Gerard Butler
“The more ugly, older, more cantankerous, more ill and poorer I become, the more I try to make amends by making my colors more vibrant, more balanced and beaming.”
Vincent van Gogh
“I'm so ugly - I worked in a pet shop, and people kept asking how big I'd get”
Rodney Dangerfield
