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Quotes About Ugly

Is truth here In the ugly unseemliness? The graceless moments Before and after Eyes are watching? In the unballerina The unperformed?
~ Stasia Ward Kehoe
Cyrus and Madge looked at each other, and when he could speak, Cyrus croaked, "They're fu…" The sound of his own voice astounded him. "They're ugly. Pagan." "They're the Fuglies", Reb sputtered. Marc added, "Cyrus is right, they're fucking ugly.
~ Stella Cameron
The whole concept of this band is to present the ugly truth about society - warts and all, and let the chips fall where they may.
~ Marilyn Manson
The truth--a hideous spectacle!
~ Conrad Aiken
The truth usually has a slightly ugly look.
~ Mason Cooley
By beauty of course I mean truth, for the one involves the other; it is only the false in art which is ugly, and it is only the ugly that is universal.
~ William Dean Howells
People lie, the president lies, corporations lie and cheat.…The world is ugly and not many people are willing to stand up to it anymore.
~ Michael Connelly
Sunsets did that here. Made you forget it was the smog that made their colors so brilliant, that behind every picture there could be an ugly story.
~ Michael Connelly
Sunsets did that here. Made you forget it was the smog that made their colors so brilliant, that behind every pretty picture there could be an ugly story.
~ Michael Connelly
It may be true that love is blind, but only for what is ugly: its sight is keen enough for what is beautiful.
~ Ivan Panin
Anything pursued and attained as a supposed compensation for the lack of self-love is ineffective and can get downright ugly.
~ Jesse D. Jennings
I love hipsters! Yes, I think they're hilarious. The really cute ones try to look ugly just to prove "I can't be ugly." Normcore was kind of funny too.
~ John Waters
Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world's excuse for being ugly.
~ Leonard Cohen
Socrates, who was a perfect model in all great qualities, ... hit on a body and face so ugly and so incongruous with the beauty of his soul, he who was so madly in love with beauty.
~ Michel de Montaigne
It was like being in the midst of an ugly-building competition. For the better part of a decade architects had been arriving in the area and saying, "You think that's bad? Wait'll you see what I can do!
~ Bill Bryson
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone. —DOROTHY PARKER
~ Bill Bryson
no small achievement when you consider the British climate, the fact that Blackpool is ugly, dirty and a long way from anywhere, that its sea is an open toilet, and its attractions nearly all cheap, provincial and dire.
~ Bill Bryson
New Rule: Stop leaving couches on the sidewalk. Besides being lazy and ugly, it's animal cruelty. You teach your dog not to pee on the couch, and then when you take him to the place he's supposed to pee, there's a couch.
~ Bill Maher
Once, on a hot summer night, I had spent an hour kissing a hairy, ape-shaped law student from Yale because I felt sorry for him, he was so ugly.
~ Sylvia Plath
The solitary mind probes at an ugly thought as a wound, constantly seeing if the pain is less, and in doing so keeps it alive beyond is time.
~ Tad Williams
Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it's not on our side," Seth said. "Big ideas are so hard to recognize, so fragile, so easy to kill. People who don't have them can't possibly understand.
~ Ted Dekker
I have an important message to deliver to all the cute people all over the world. If you're out there and you're cute, maybe you're beautiful. I just want to tell you somethin' — there's more of us UGLY MOTHERFUCKERS than you are, hey-y, so watch out.
~ Frank Zappa
The ugly sister of gratitude is revenge, an emotion equally concerned with the squaring of accounts, but in a negative sense.
~ Frans de Waal
Love of what is good and useful, and hatred of what is ugly or evil and harmful are the conditions for success. Bashfulness (hayâ, corresponding to Greek aidôs) and the avoidance of bad company and of sloth are among the qualities strongly recommended for inculcation in the young.
~ Franz Rosenthal