Ugly Quotes

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. (Thomas Henry Huxley)
A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful. View quote
Karl Kraus
The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
There is nothing ugly; I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful. View quote
John Constable
The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. View quote
James Baldwin
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly. View quote
Oscar Wilde
War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included. View quote
Karl Marx
I don't have time for their judgement and their stupidity and you know they lay down with their ugly wives in front of their ugly children and look at their loser lives and then they look at me and they say, 'I can't process it' well, no, you never will stop trying, just sit back and enjoy the show. You know? View quote
Charlie Sheen
One must love humanity in order to reach out into the unique essence of each individual: no one can be too low or too ugly. View quote
Georg Büchner
I think a beautiful product that doesn't work very well is ugly. (Jonathan Ive)
England's not a bad country. It's just a mean, cold, ugly, divided, tired, clapped-out, post-imperial, post-industrial slag-heap covered in polystyrene hamburger cartons. View quote
Margaret Drabble
A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get relief. View quote
John Dos Passos
Vice knows that she is ugly, so she puts on her mask. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
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. View quote
Baruch Spinoza
Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life. View quote
Muhammad Ali
The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law. View quote
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. View quote
H. G. Wells
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. View quote
John Stuart Mill
There is no such thing as an ugly woman. (Vincent van Gogh)
Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image. View quote
Charles Dickens
Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there. View quote
Eric Hoffer
Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head. View quote
William Shakespeare
There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly. View quote
Boris Vian