America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious.
Goldwin Smith

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
Jean Rostand

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.
Douglas Horton

Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent.
Sharon Tate

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
Ouida

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Oscar Wilde

From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world.
Andrei Platonov

I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
Imelda Marcos

I have no right to beauty. I had been condemned to masculine ugliness.
Renee Vivien

I like to have Chinese furniture in my home as a constant and painful reminder of how much has been destroyed in China. The contrast between the beauty of the past and the ugliness of the modern is nowhere sharper than in China.
Jung Chang

I love it when ugliness is beautiful. I love character flaws.
Marcia Gay Harden

I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.
Salvador Dali

I was amazed and upset by the looks I got just walking around the studio... It illuminates the ugliness and the beauty that exists within each of us, and that's what this story represents to me.
Gerard Butler

I'm not that obsessed with making representations of ugliness. Everything I've seen is beautiful.
Otto Dix

In matters large and small, many people seemed concerned about churlishness, an ugliness in our relationships that appears to be increasing rather than decreasing.
Nick Clooney

In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.
Thornton Wilder

It's taken me a long time to become the person I am, for all the ugliness to fall away. The rotten flesh is gone, and the seed is there. I can touch that now.
Lynn Johnston

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.
George Orwell

Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.
Daniel Goleman