“ I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it. ”
- Salvador Dali- Copy
- 1.9K
“ 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- Copy
- 1.7K
“ The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 53
“ The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 2.3K
“ In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness. ”
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette- Copy
- 339
“ It's nothing to be born ugly. Sensibly, the ugly woman comes to terms with her ugliness and exploits it as a grace of nature. To become ugly means the beginning of a calamity, self-willed most of the time. ”
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette- Copy
- 2.4K
“ It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness. ”
- Thornton Wilder- Copy
- 3.7K
“ 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- Copy
- 1.2K
“ For a while after the ugliness of the OJ Trial I liked doing him. That became fun to do because instead of OJ being smart and disappearing he wouldn't leave. So he put himself up to be ridiculed. ”
- Tim Meadows- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Applied good taste is a mark of good citizenship. Ugliness is a from of anarchy… ugly cities, ugly advertising, ugly lives produce bad citizens. ”
- Lester Beall- Copy
- 2.9K
“ One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty is another's ugliness; one man's wisdom is another's folly. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast. ”
- Graham Greene- Copy
- 2.5K
“ No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Enthusiasm for one's goal to lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it. ”
- Thomas Eakins- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Enthusiasm for one's goal lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it. ”
- Thomas Eakins- Copy
- 752
“ Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 363
“ Envy has the ugliness of a trapped rat that has gnawed its own foot in its effort to escape. ”
- Angus Wilson- Copy
- 1.7K
“ I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it. ”
- Salvador Dali- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Let me look at the foulness and ugliness of my body. Let me see myself as an ulcerous sore running with every horrible and disgusting poison. ”
- St. Ignatius Loyola- Copy
- 1.2K
“ Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or debase it into ugliness. It's in our hands. ”
- Cathy Better- Copy
- 2.6K
“ 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- Copy
- 2.2K
“ What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness. ”
- Joseph Brodsky- Copy
- 2.1K
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