Quotes About Contrast

It's funny how, when things seem the darkest, moments of beauty present themselves in the most unexpected places.

I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.

A poore beauty finds more lovers then husbands.

Beauty is an evil in an ivory setting.

Gold lends a touch of beauty even to the ugly.

In a world of hunchbacks, a fine figure becomes a monstrosity.

I want find to beauty in the world but to do so requires you to acknowledge and confront the darkness.

khalepa ta kala, greek. It means 'beauty is harsh'.

To a toad what is beauty? A female with two lovely pop-eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly, and green spotted back.

What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question, How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near?

All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.

Their beauty was to the beauty of Miss Canal Zone as the glory of the Sun was to the glory of a lightning bug.

They ran to the museums for paintings. I ran to the roof for sunsets

Life wasn't perfect, but it wasn't supposed to be. Eternal beauty could not exist if it were not for the face of a fatal flaw.

I've had my best times when trailing a Mainbocher evening gown across a sawdust floor. I've always loved high style in low company.

The best way to make the most serious point in the world is to be as unserious as possible.

I lived in Los Angeles in the '80s, which was not the best place to be.

The best comedy, I feel, comes in a drama because it balances each other out.

It is said that the Devil has all the best tunes. This is broadly true. But Heaven has the best choreographers

Ugliness sees ugliness

I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar.

Enjoy how sweet, how thoughtful, how kind I'm being on your birthday. Because tomorrow it's back to the same old crap.

Death smells like birthday cake.

The more alike two products are, the more important their differences become.