A Quote by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not often hidden — only ugliness and deformity.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

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Beauty Deformity Generally Hidden Often Only Secrets Terrible Ugliness

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Lucy Maud Montgomery
Canadian - Educator
November 30, 1874 - April 24, 1942

Where there is much general deformity nature has often, perhaps generally, accorded some one bodily grace even in over-measure. So, no doubt, with the intellect and disposition, only it is frequently less apparent, and we give ourselves but little trouble to discover it.

John Frederick Boyes

She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox.

Truman Capote

The ugliness of the beauty is much horrible than the ugliness of the ugliness.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Ugliness is more inventive than beauty. Beauty always follows certain camps. I think it's more amusing - ugliness - than beauty.

Umberto Eco

The world didn’t like to look at the dark underside very often. But that didn’t change the ugliness; it only ensured that those who perpetuated the ugliness were left alone to kill and maim and rape.

Ted Dekker

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Jean Rostand

The more we study nature the grander does she appear. Science, by penetrating her secrets, often shows us the hidden and imposing forces exist where we only see inertia.

Felix Archimede Pouchet

As a painter, cursed or blessed with a terrible and vital sensuousness, I must look for wisdom with my eyes. I repeat, with my eyes, for nothing could be more ridiculous or irrelevant than a 'philosophical conception painted purely intellectually without the terrible fury of the senses grasping each visible form of beauty and ugliness.

Max Beckmann

Since hearing beauty in something is essentially a positive response and hearing ugliness is negative, might it ultimately be more difficult for an open-minded listener to define ugliness than it is to define beauty?

Frank J. Oteri

I prefer ugliness to beauty, because ugliness endures.

Serge Gainsbourg

True love survives all shocks: an affection originally produced by admiration for unusual beauty may not only survive the loss of that beauty, but may become more intense if the beauty has changed into ugliness through causes that bind the lovers together in tender associations.

Arthur Lynch

It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the 'dear deceit' of beauty.

T. S. Eliot

The only ugliness is that of the heart, seen through the face. And though beauty be obvious, the only loveliness is invisible.

Herman Melville

Beauty is only skin deep; ugliness goes all the way through.

Edward Abbey

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.