Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Ugliness.
Beauty is single. Only ugliness is multiple, and even then its multiplicity is soon exhausted.
Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly
Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity.
L.M. Montgomery
Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace
Marquis de Sade
An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful.
Victoria
I know it's not clothes that make women beautiful or otherwise, nor beauty care, nor expensive creams, nor the distinction of costliness of their finery. I know the problem lies elsewhere. I don't know where. I only know it isn't where women think.
Marguerite Duras
I just think of things as beautiful or not. Can't you understand? I don't think of good or bad. Just of beautiful or ugly. I think a lot of nice things are ugly and a lot of nasty things are beautiful.
John Fowles
There are more nasty things in pretty packages in the world than most people would believe.
Mercedes Lackey
Beauty he loved for its own sake; ugliness, which more often than not was a form of inverted beauty, fascinated him. Life offered far too little of either, and far too much appalling mediocrity, which he thought hideous.
Lloyd Biggle Jr.
It doesn't matter if you're born in a duck yard, so long as you are hatched from a swan's egg!
Hans Christian Andersen
She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox.
Truman Capote
The ugliest thing in the world is a beautiful woman without the brains or courage to know that [beauty] is nothing more than an accident.
Charlie Fletcher
That's the world out there, little green apples and infectious disease.
Don DeLillo
I hate slick and pretty things. I prefer mistakes and accidents. Which is why I like things like cuts and bruises - they're like little flowers. I've always said that if you have a name for something, like 'cut' or 'bruise,' people will automatically be disturbed by it. But when you see the same thing in nature, and you don't know what it is, it can be very beautiful.
David Lynch
Nothing is more important than that you see and love the beauty that is right in front of you, or else you will have no defense against the ugliness that will hem you in and come at you in so many ways.
Neal Stephenson
I'm so ugly - I worked in a pet shop, and people kept asking how big I'd get
Rodney Dangerfield
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
Oscar Wilde
The ability to master other languages (which would have hugely enhanced the scope of these answers). Fully conscious, and either fighting or reciting (or fooling around). The way in which it makes former admirers search for neutral words.
Christopher Hitchens
