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Quotes About Ugly

Oh, mercy, there is nothing monstrously ugly about you. Ruth may be unpleasing, but you are merely plain. If anything, it's my beauty that's monstrous, for it sweeps away any other aspect of my character.
~ Gregory Maguire
I recognized the ugly and unwieldy form of the cook, whose very absurdness had now become unutterably tragic. The
~ H.P. Lovecraft
For poverty is miserable. It is ugly, disorganized, rowdy, sick, uneducated, violent, afflicted with crime. Poverty demeans human dignity. The demanding tone, the inarticulateness, the implied violence deeply offended us. We didn't want to see it on our sacred monumental grounds. We wanted it out of sight and out of mind.
~ Hampton Sides
But what about ugly bastards? What about us? What about our rights to be kissed?
~ Hanif Kureishi
Oh, said the mother, that is not a turkey. How well he uses his legs, and how upright he holds himself! He is my own child, and he is not so very ugly after all if you look at him properly. Quack, quack! Come with me now. I will take you into grand society, and introduce you to the farmyard, but you must keep close to me or you may be trodden upon. And, above all, beware of the cat. When they reached the farmyard
~ Hans Christian Andersen
Win nodded. "Open the glove compartment. Arm yourself like a paranoid despot. This may get ugly." Myron
~ Harlan Coben
Never was there a dingier, uglier, less picturesque city than London ... it is really wonderful that so much brick and stone, for centuries together, should have been built up with so poor a result.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
I said to them last week that I'd like them to win ugly and they certainly won ugly today. That was the ugliest thing I've seen since the ugly sisters fell out of the ugly tree.
~ Terry Butcher
Be very careful about your care. Don't use it for sexual high jinks. It can get ugly - trust me. Also be careful when flushing.
~ Adam West
Never trust an ugly woman. She's got a grudge against the world,' said Grandma who was no oil painting herself.
~ Richard Peck
This is an ugly and mean world, and only to spite it we mustn't weep. If you want to know, this is the constant source of my good spirit, of my humor. Not to cry, out of spite, only to laugh out of spite, only to laugh.
~ Sholem Aleichem
In spite of their hats being very ugly, Goddam! I love the English.
~ Bertrand Barere
He saw three ugly natures, three small, cruel souls.
~ Max Brand
But that was before the curse, before the shadow fell across the garden of Adam, before the shadow fell across the heart of Adam. And ever since the curse, we've been different. Beastly. Ugly. Defiant. Angry. We do things we know we shouldn't do and wonder why we did them.
~ Max Lucado
I hoped the Trump era would be seen as an aberration and made less ugly by those who might have influence over the president. That hasn't happened. Rather than Republicans and people of faith checking his most unappealing sides, the president is dragging down virtually everyone within his orbit.15
~ Stuart Stevens
Yes," I clipped out, "I know. Hurt happens." I heard that long, weary exhalation. "It does. That's life. It's the good and the bad, the ugly and the beautiful, the wins and the losses. I never thought you'd be too afraid to try. I though you were stronger than that.
~ Josh Lanyon
Cruelty, like lying, repels instantly and easily because it is 'ugly.' It is a vice that disfigures human characters, not a transgression of a divine or human rule.
~ Judith N. Shklar
There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly.
~ Boris Vian
Maybe the ugly clothes had a more functional origin. Maybe in the old days, when animals roamed free, golfers dressed this way to ward off dangerous wildlife.
~ Harlan Coben
In my ugly, elitist opinion we are not all entitled to voice our opinions, we are entitled to pass along our informed opinions.
~ Harlan Ellison
It is important to the typical 'Star Trek' fan that there is a tomorrow. They pretty much share the 'Star Trek' philosophies about life: the fact that it is wrong to interfere in the evolvement of other peoples, that to be different is not necessarily to be wrong or ugly.
~ Gene Roddenberry
My mother brought me magicians and witches, because I was very ugly, really revolting. So she thought somebody had put a spell on me - this is the truth - so she made me drink some horrible terrifying potions, for year.
~ Roberto Benigni
SOCRATES: That since beautiful is the opposite of ugly, they are two things. GLAUCON: Of course. SOCRATES: And since they are two things, each of them is also one? GLAUCON: That's true too.
~ Socrates
When I had the dividing reason, I shrank from many things; after I had lost it in sight, I hunted through the world for the ugly and the repellent, but I could no longer find them.
~ Sri Aurobindo