No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
Oscar Wilde

Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.
Honore de Balzac

Not after the big bust in '92, there's no big drug lifestyle anymore. I can't talk about it. Pretty ugly.
Gene Ween

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

Of course I'm respectable. I'm old. Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.
Robert Towne

Once upon a time there was a Queen who had a son so ugly and so misshapen that it was long disputed whether he had human form. A fairy who was at his birth said, however, that he would be very amiable for all that, since he would have uncommon good sense.
Charles Perrault

One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one can be too low or too ugly.
Georg Buchner

Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
Ambrose Bierce

Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
Eric Hoffer

Our music's kind of about taking something ugly and making it beautiful.
Jerry Cantrell

People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.
Sa'Di

People desire to separate their worlds into polarities of dark and light, ugly and beautiful, good and evil, right and wrong, inside and outside. Polarities serve us in our learning and growth, but as souls we are all.
Joy Page

Politics is just show business for ugly people.
Jay Leno

Politics is show business for ugly people.
Paul Begala

Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful - it's made for the losers.
Rita Mae Brown

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

Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.
Frank Sinatra

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

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

She tries to get a waitressing job for a while - I mean, she's looking for a while before she finds Coyote Ugly - and it's hard to get a waitressing job in the city.
Piper Perabo