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Quotes About Ugly

He tousled Baby's hair, then looked up at Tiger Lily. "The woods have rules." He put Baby down gingerly in his trough with his bottle. "But the rules are ugly." "It's nature," she said, thoughtfully. "I have a lot of disagreements with nature," he said, looking confused, and his downy brow wrinkled over his eyes.
~ Jodi Lynn Anderson
Somewhere in every one of us, no matter how deep it may be hidden, is a latent germ of beauty. ... We dance because this germ of beauty demands such expression, and the more we give it outlet the more we encourage our own instinct for graceful forms. It is by the steady elimination of everything which is ugly-thoughts and words no less than tangible objects-and by the substitution of things of true and lasting beauty that the whole progress of humanity proceeds.
~ Anna Pavlova
I am ugly, submerged in my own past and my own madness
~ Anne Sexton
If this is hell, then hell could not be much, neither as special nor as ugly as I was told.
~ Anne Sexton
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.
~ Anonymous
My Fiat Multipla is bright green - it looks like a frog. I look like a monkey, so between the two of us, we are a hideous prospect. It's the ugliest car on the road but the most practical, and I would live and die by it.
~ Dominic Holland
I've just been to Greece to see the buildings there,' said Professor Silenus. 'Did you like them?' 'They are unspeakably ugly. But there were some nice goats.
~ Evelyn Waugh
Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all aims, objectives and intentions.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Whoa, whoa!" he says as he sits up in bed. "You're beautiful. There is no ugly now. And I'm sure there was no ugly then. It was only how you felt when you were sick. I can understand that. But I can also assure you that you have never been ugly. There is only beauty here.
~ Lisa Mondello
each one uglier than the next.
~ Lisa Scottoline
Lord, What a terrible shame. You're so attractive!' I know, I want to tell her. It should have happened to someone really ugly. And then it wouldn't have mattered.
~ Liz Jensen
How was your bone-replacement surgery? asked Illyan. About what I expected, from having my legs done before. The ugliest part was opening my right arm and hand up to pick out all the bone fragments. Tedious. The left went a lot faster — the pieces were bigger.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
The camel's hump is an ugly lump, Which well you might see at the zoo. But uglier yet is the hump we get, For having to little to do.
~ Rudyard Kipling
In exile, the furniture is ugly, expensive, all brought at the same time in the same store and in too much of a hurry[.]
~ Salman Rushdie
But that's war for you. An ugly business that only leaves bad men better off. Why folk insisted on singing about great warriors all the time, Rikke couldn't have said. Why not sing about really good fishermen, or bakers, or roofers, or some other folk who actually left the world a better place, rather than heaping up corpses and setting fire to things? Was that behaviour to encourage?
~ Joe Abercrombie
When it came to hatred, Brodd Tenways had a bottomless supply. He was one of those bastards who can't even breathe quietly, ugly as incest and always delighted to push it in your face, leering from the shadows like the village pervert at a passing milkmaid.
~ Joe Abercrombie
You would have had to look far and wide to find anyone less beautiful than the big nine-fingered bastard. He sat in his saddle slumped over like some great sack of rice. Slow-moving, scratching, sniffing, chewing like a big cow. Trying to look like he had no killing in him, no mad fury, no devil. She knew better. He nodded to her and she scowled back. He was a devil wearing a cow's skin, and she was not fooled.
~ Joe Abercrombie
He was one of those bastards who can't even breathe quietly, ugly as incest and always delighted to push it in your face, leering from the shadows like the village pervert at a passing milkmaid.
~ Joe Abercrombie
There was a long, ugly pause. Uglier than the child of a man and a sheep, as the hillmen have it.
~ Joe Abercrombie
La palabra secuestro es muy fea. ¿Por qué no lo considera como una invitación difícil de resistir?
~ Joe Abercrombie
Sometimes pretty lies win the day. But sometimes ugly truths cut deeper.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Oh, yeah," my dad said. "Check out Such Men Are Dangerous, the novel Block wrote as Paul Kavanagh. That book is less like a novel, more like getting mugged in an alley." Such Men Are Dangerous was the story of an ex-soldier who had done ugly things in the war and come home looking to do some ugly things right here. While it has been decades since I read it, I think my dad's assessment was roughly correct.
~ Joe Hill
Up behind the icehouse was the little house where Bill lived with his wife and two daughters, who looked as if they had fallen out of an ugly tree, hit every branch on the way down, then smacked the dirt solid. They was always smilin´ at me and such and it made me nervous.
~ joe r lansdale
An ugly, lovely town ... crawling, sprawling ... by the side of a long and splendid curving shore. This sea-town was my world.
~ Dylan Thomas