Ugly Quotes

All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.
Zhuangzi

Beautiful, May, Valuable

Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.
Robin Williams

Fight, Nothing, Person

What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.
William Blake

Rich, Old, Prudence

God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room.
Ani DiFranco

God, Girl, Pretty

Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.
Redd Foxx

Beauty, Deep, May

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.
Charles Dickens

Happy, Together, Old

Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
Jean Cocteau

Time, Art, Beautiful

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
James A. Baldwin

Knowledge, Side, Price

Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.
Margaret Cho

Beautiful, Woman, Insult

A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.
William Makepeace Thackeray

Successful, Fool, Handsome

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Thomas Huxley

Great, Science, Beautiful

The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.
Michel de Montaigne

Find, Both, Worst

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.
Andre Gide

Become, Himself, Butterfly

For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.
Alice Walker

Time, Long, Thought

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.
Thomas Huxley

Science, Beautiful, Sense

A woman tells her doctor, 'I've got a bad back.' The doctor says, 'It's old age.' The woman says, 'I want a second opinion.' The doctor says: 'Okay - you're ugly as well.'
Tommy Cooper

Age, Bad, Woman

I find very often that very ugly women have really handsome men and vice versa because they don't have any competition. Sometimes handsome men have avoided me.
Hedy Lamarr

Women, Men, Find

Sometimes you see beautiful people with no brains. Sometimes you have ugly people who are intelligent, like scientists.
Jose Mourinho

Beautiful, Sometimes, Brains

It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.
John Steinbeck

True, Sick, Earth

I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it.
Oscar Hammerstein II

Hope, Beautiful, Important

My mother always called me an ugly weed, so I never was aware of anything until I was older. Plain girls should have someone telling them they are beautiful. Sometimes this works miracles.
Hedy Lamarr

Beautiful, Mother, Someone

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
H. G. Wells

Nothing, Measure, Ugliness

I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.
Shakira

Truth, Heart, Someone

Some women hold up dresses that are so ugly and they always say the same thing: 'This looks much better on.' On what? On fire?
Rita Rudner

Women, Fire, Same

I think rage is so ugly.
Jennifer Aniston

Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not.
Jerry Saltz

I don't know much about auctions. I sometimes go to previews and see art sardined into ugly rooms. I've gawked at the gaudy prices, and gaped at well-clad crowds of happy white people conspicuously spending hundreds of millions of dollars.
Jerry Saltz

Art, Happy, Sometimes

In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty.
Phil Ochs

Beauty, True, Times

Have you ever seen people so ugly that you have to get someone else to verify it?
Jeff Foxworthy

Someone, Else, Seen

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