Top 373 Ugliness Quotes & Sayings

One can get used to ugliness, but never to negligence.

Ugliness is the greatest of all sins.

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?

TV in all its ugliness can be a beautiful thing.

The repercussion of ugliness is endless.

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

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

I'm not going to have the TV personality and be like, 'There's no bitterness. There's no ugliness.' There's bitterness. There's ugliness. There's pain. There's greed. There's malice, and there's hurt. That's all good stuff for any kind of art. I'm not necessarily feeding that side of myself, and I try not to encourage it too much.

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

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

Some men's ugliness is hard to beat.

An ugliness unfurled in the moonlight and soft shadow and suffused the whole world. If I were an amoeba, he thought, with an infinitesimal body, I could defeat ugliness. A man isn’t tiny or giant enough to defeat anything.

What makes sovereign ugliness are our conventions.

There is an ugliness in being paid for work one does not like.

Ugliness is a point of view; an ulcer is wonderful to a pathologist.

It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression "As pretty as an airport." Airports are ugly. Some are very ugly. Some attain a degree of ugliness that can only be the result of a special effort. This ugliness arises because airports are full of people who are tired, cross, and have just discovered that their luggage has landed in Murmansk (Murmansk airport is the only exception of this otherwise infallible rule), and architects have on the whole tried to reflect this in their designs.

Few persons comprehend the power of ugliness.

Ugliness is a letter of credit for some special purposes.

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

Violence never quashed violence because if you're equipped to do violence then you'll continue that passage. Let's say Nazis, if Nazis they be, have got a profoundly ugly form of thought and of actions, why match that? Antifa's ugliness is no better than the ugliness of the far right.

Ugliness without tact is horrible.

The malevolence of men revealed itself to his mind in all of its ugliness

He was ugly, himself. Weird-ugly. But ugliness in a man doesn't matter, much. Ugliness in a woman is her life.

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

The great crime which the moneyed classes and promoters of industry committed in the palmy Victorian days was the condemning of the workers to ugliness, ugliness, ugliness: meanness and formless and ugly surroundings, ugly ideals, ugly religion, ugly hope, ugly love, ugly clothes, ugly furniture, ugly houses, ugly relationship between workers and employers. The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.

People should not be responding to bigoted ugliness with any ugliness of their own.

You have never seen ugliness in a happy face.

Beauty is, in some way, boring. Even if its concept changes through the ages... a beautiful object must always follow certain rules. A beautiful nose shouldn't be longer than that or shorter than that, on the contrary, an ugly nose can be as long as the one of Pinocchio, or as big as the trunk of an elephant, or like the beak of an eagle, and so ugliness is unpredictable, and offers an infinite range of possibility. Beauty is finite, ugliness is infinite like God.

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

It was there, beyond the skin of this world, that a cure of ugliness could be found.

Ugliness does not sell.

Only ugliness is obscene.

Ugliness is superior to beauty because it lasts longer.

Beauty is lyrical. Ugliness is elegiac.

Ugliness is nature's contraceptive.

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

Whats beauty anyway but ugliness if it hurts you?

Success is a rare paint, hides all the ugliness.

Dreams surround our desires with ugliness and dread.

Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.

I'm surrounded by young and beautiful people. I hate looking at ugliness.

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

Ugliness and evil are necessary for growth but they may be experienced vicariously.

Our society can no longer tolerate ugliness. You see that in cars, sofas and women. [But] ugliness also has a right to exist.

I prefer ugliness to beauty, because ugliness endures.

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.

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

People want to be happy, so they don't want to feel as though they're mired in this world of ugliness. I think that if people can recognize that you can actually help and change that ugliness, then you'll feel a lot better about yourself as well, and that does create a certain amount of happiness.

The ugliness of the ideological lies in its legitimating the pursuit of the trivial.

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is ugliness.

Absolute and entire ugliness is rare.

... all ugliness passes, and beauty endures, excepting of the skin.

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

The old woman was not only ugly with the ugliness age brings us all but showed signs of formidable ugliness by birth - pickle-jar chin, mainsail ears and a nose like a trigonometry problem. What's more, she had the deep frown and snit wrinkles that come from a lifetime of bad character.

From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world.

Industry is the root of all ugliness.

Ugliness has its own splendor when it houses a soul of beauty.