Ugliness Quotes

They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not look like this if I am corrupt. Some ugliness would settle down on my system.

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

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.

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

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.

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

Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.

A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should not use one uniform expression.

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

People are reminded that it's not all ugliness in the world.

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

From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world.

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

Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?

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

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

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Stanley didn't shy away from true humanity or from the ugliness that all people are capable of.

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.

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

Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.

A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder.

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

That was' one time when my technique absolutely deserted me, I must admit. There was a wax face that he had created himself to cover his own ugliness. I was in his clutches and I had to hit him in the face.

We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.

The only sin is ugliness, and if we believed this with all our being, all other activities of the human spirit could be left to take care of themselves.

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.

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.

There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.