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Quotes About Ugly

Comparison is an act of violence against the self. It also leads to judgments and jealousy of those we deem "better off" than we are. If we aren't the ones doing the comparing, then we're the ones against whom other women measure themselves. In either case, the comparison, judgments, and jealousy can lead to ugly behavior.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
Well, stop it or . . . Crap, is that Drunk Santa currently mooning passing traffic?" "Wow, that's some ugly ass he's got there. It is Drunk Santa. Oh, please, do we have to stop? Think of the smell. Fear it." "We can't leave that ugly ass hanging out on Ninth Avenue." Resigned, Eve started to pull over, then spotted two hustling beat cops. Pitying them, she kept going. "It's a Christmas miracle," Peabody said, reverently.
~ J.D. Robb
It would be best if this obscure chapter in the history of the world were terminated at once, if these ugly people were obliterated from the face of the earth and we swore to make a new start, to run an empire in which there would be no more injustice, no more pain.
~ J.M. Coetzee
I think the uglier the playoff beard, the better though, right?
~ Daryl Morey
Spaces I love to do - the uglier the better - tend to be really old, dated basements - especially from the '60s to the '80s. I love those.
~ Candice Olson
Business should never be allowed to justify mean, thug ugly deals for any reason.
~ Ralph Steadman
Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Beautiful speech doesn't need protection, it's ugly speech that needs protection. We have these cultural norms that allow people to say really ugly things. You don't have to invite them to your dinner party, but you should let them say it.
~ Jeff Bezos
In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty.
~ Phil Ochs
Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.
~ William Blake
Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.
~ Redd Foxx
I just think religion is something... It could be a beautiful thing for the individual, but when it becomes organized, that's when religion starts taking a kind of ugly turn to me.
~ Daron Malakian
You should see my stepdad's face when he's lifting something. It's the scariest thing I've ever seen! So you can't expect, just because I'm a potentially pretty person, that I won't allow myself to try out emotional states that might make me look ugly to some people.
~ Aldous Harding
I tell the truth and they call me a fascist, a racist, an ugly, dirty, nasty, xenophobic populist.
~ Matteo Salvini
I find that the only way to make my characters really interesting to children is to exaggerate all their good or bad qualities, and so if a person is nasty or bad or cruel, you make them very nasty, very bad, very cruel. If they are ugly, you make them extremely ugly. That, I think, is fun and makes an impact.
~ Roald Dahl
This world is ugly, and it's supposed to be, and it has to be in order for art to lead to grandness and beauty.
~ Shawn Crahan
One of the pleasures of the original 'Grimm's Fairy Tales' is how incredibly ghastly they are. The ugly sisters have their eyes pecked out by crows.
~ Mark Gatiss
Another thing that's pathetic is this rule that you have to look ugly to get respect as an actress. Jessica Lange had to make herself look really bad to prove that she had amazing talent.
~ Kevyn Aucoin
I always think that in nearly every instance things that turn ugly, they almost invariably do so because of a misunderstanding, or because of poor communication.
~ Alexander Armstrong
Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
~ Thomas Huxley
I've always been more comfortable sinking while clutching a good theory than swimming with an ugly fact.
~ David Mamet
The great thing about freshwater fish is most of them are incredibly ugly, a lot of them are, so no one can fail to look good next to some of these things.
~ Jeremy Wade
Politics has always been ugly to me, and yet I accept that as a fact of life.
~ Billy Graham
Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
~ Barbara Bush