Top 373 Ugliness Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on April 14, 2025.
I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes.
UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.
Elegance in objects is everybody’s right, and it shouldn’t cost more than ugliness.
Paris, like every pretty woman, is subject to inexplicable whims of beauty and ugliness.
Envy has the ugliness of a trapped rat that has gnawed its own foot in its effort to escape.
Phoenix, Arizona: an oasis of ugliness in the midst of a beautiful wasteland.
The ugliness can sometimes be super ugly, but also a warning sign of something down below.
The highways of American cities are an enduring testimony to our acceptance of ugliness
Make sure you stay in touch with beauty instead of letting the ugliness of the world corrupt your soul
Love and war always go together. They are the peaks of human emotion! Evil and good, beauty and ugliness
It's time to join the ranks of nations that have put the ugliness of capital punishment behind them.
The ugliness of bigotry stands in direct contradiction to the very meaning of America.
We moved together very slowly toward the house, trying to understand its ugliness and ruin and shame.
It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.
I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
Writing means not just staring ugliness in the face, but finding a way to embrace it.
I think 1973 was the nadir of fashion. When you watch the coverage from that era, you're struck by the astonishing ugliness of the clothes.
Ugliness is better than beauty. It lasts longer and in the end, gravity will get us all.
For every monarchy overthrown the sky becomes less brilliant, because it loses a star. A republic is ugliness set free.
Beauty is only skin deep; ugliness goes all the way through.
It's been a long rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.
She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox.
Stanley didn't shy away from true humanity or from the ugliness that all people are capable of.
I try to show ugliness, but with compassion for the people who commit ugly acts.
Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.
Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.
Comedy breaks down walls. It frees us for just a moment from the ugliness of this world.
Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness.
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
There is ugliness of mass production and consumerism, the banality of advertising. Although it claims to do just the opposite, it's predicated on disempowering and effacing persons.
If you think something is ugly, look harder. Ugliness is just a failure of seeing.
But there's got to be an opening somewhere here in front of me. Through this maze of ugliness and greed.
Had any poet adequately described the wretched ugliness of a loved one turned inside out with grief?
Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not often hidden — only ugliness and deformity.
The popularity of punk rock was, in effect, due to the fact that it made ugliness beautiful.
I wanted to be an honest writer and show my ugliness as much as I showed my hopes or goodness. And that really sculpted the type of artist I've become.
There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough.
No one likes it, apart from blind people, and I'm sure even they can sense it's profound ugliness as it passes by.
The virtue of pride, which was once the beauty of mankind, has given place to that fount of ugliness, Christian humility.
Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: But with poverty everything becomes frightful.
It is the sheer ugliness and banality of everyday life which turns my blood to ice and makes me cringe in terror.
We should try to introduce our children to science today as a rebellion against poverty and ugliness and militarism and economic injustice.
My idea was to chose an object that wouldn't attract me, either by its beauty or by its ugliness. To find a point of indifference in my looking at it, you see
Ugliness is a lack of harmony, assuredly. And evil is the same thing of course.
What is commonly called ugliness in nature can in art become full of beauty.
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
God gives us the ugliness so we don't take the beautiful things in life for granted.
Nothing keeps me in such awe as perfect beauty; now, there is something consoling and encouraging in ugliness.
America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious.
...beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments.
Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness.
Everything drops away, comes to be unimportant in the dark. It's like sleep almost. A freedom from self, from ugliness.
Reality is perfect light. It frees you from the limitations of this world, from the ugliness, from the unhappiness of limited perception.
The immersive ugliness of our everyday environments in America is entropy made visible.
I had a microscopic eye for the blemish, for the grain of ugliness which to me constituted the sole beauty of the object.
Ugliness corrupts not only the eyes, but also the heart and mind.
What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.
We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
Will the leader reflect the ugliness of egotism or the transfigured glory of Christ the Lord?
When you see the ugliness behind the tears of another person, it makes you take a closer look at your own.
