Quotes with ugliness

  • Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

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  • George Orwell 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
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Jean Rostand Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Doug Horton Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.
    Doug Horton
    American Protestant clergyman
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  • Plotinus Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
    Plotinus
    Roman philosopher (205 - 270)
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  • O. Sitwell Evil and ugliness are the same thing, and dullness is the mother of both.
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  • Ouida Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
    Ouida
    English novelist, pseudonym of Maria Louise Ramé (1839 - 1908)
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  • Oscar Wilde Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Salvador Dali I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.
    Salvador Dali
    Spanish painter (1904 - 1989)
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  • George Bernard Shaw In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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  • Vita Sackville-West It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette 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
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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  • St. Ignatius Loyola 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.
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  • George Bernard Shaw Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Elie Wiesel The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Jane Jacobs 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.
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  • H.G. Wells 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
    British-born American author (1866 - 1946)
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  • Joseph Brodsky What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.
    Joseph Brodsky
    Russian-born American Poet, Critic (1940 - 1996)
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  • Anna Freud Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness?
    Anna Freud
    Austrian-British psychoanalyst (1895 - 1982)
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