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Quotes About Unsightly

Description of Frankincense: The most glorious scent in the whole world comes from an ugly piece of resin which exudes from an unsightly scar on a repulsive tree in a dreadful desert
~ Alan Gold
PESSIMISM- philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Whenever two unbelievers quarrel, the may both say some very insightful things about the unsightly habits of the other. The postmodernists are very good at pointing out the pretensions of the modernists. And the modernists are very good at pointing out the incoherence of the postmodernists.
~ Douglas Wilson
as there were no kind of sanitary facilities on the premises, the results were apt to be unsightly and demoralising, to say the least.
~ John Gielgud
Exactly what kind of creature is it?" they asked one another. She was too unsightly to be thought of as frolic in bed for the master. She was too far past her childbearing years to multiply the stock. Though she seemed nimble enough, it was hard to imagine her being brought all the way from North Carolina for field work.
~ Jonathan Odell
Being dead is absurd. It's the silliest situation you'll find yourself in. Your limbs are floppy and uncooperative. Your mouth hangs open. Being dead is unsightly and stinky and embarrassing, and there's not a damn thing to be done about it.
~ Mary Roach
I do not wish to seem inelegant, but this unsightly whale looks much like an amputated sow; and, as for the narwhale, one glimpse at it is enough to amaze one, that in this nineteenth century such a hippogriff could be palmed for genuine upon any intelligent public of schoolboys.
~ Herman Melville
suppurating bunghole with all the allure of a hair on a toilet seat.
~ Christopher Fowler
what you call a blind rabbit sitting on your face? An unsightly facial hare.
~ James Patterson
One would think there was enough unavoidable tragedy in everyone's existence to keep him from seeking the hideous and unsightly," he mused. "And yet it may be the fact that each has his cross to bear that leads him to come in contact with the world's wretchedness as a sort of palliative to his own."[11]
~ Harold Schechter
That is an eyesore.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
If it's very ugly, maybe it's hideous?
~ Unknown