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  • No, In fairy tales When to the ill-starred Prince the lady says 'I love you!' all his ugliness fades fast But I remain the same, up to the last!

    Edmond Rostand (2015). “Cyrano de Bergerac”, p.178, Sheba Blake Publishing
  • Happiness does away with ugliness, and even makes the beauty of beauty.

  • Lord Chesterfield designated ugly women as the third sex; how shall we place ugly men.

    Sex   Men   Ugly Man  
  • Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness.

    Attachment   Long   Vices  
    Michel de Montaigne (1973). “Selections from the Essays”, Harlan Davidson
  • Nothing keeps me in such awe as perfect beauty; now, there is something consoling and encouraging in ugliness.

    Perfect   Consoling   Awe  
    Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1833). “The Works of the Late Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Collected by Thomas Moore ... A New Edition ... With a Biographical Sketch”, p.66
  • Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace

    Sade (marquis de), Marquis de Sade (1987). “The 120 days of Sodom and other writings”, Grove Pr
  • The truly beautiful are often abused for apparent ugliness just as those with great vision often bump into things.

  • It's been a long rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.

  • Comedy breaks down walls. It frees us for just a moment from the ugliness of this world.

    Wall   World   Comedy  
    Goldie Hawn (2006). “A Lotus Grows in the Mud”, p.206, Penguin
  • ...beauty, she had discovered occupied a narrow band. Ugliness, on the hand, had infinite variation.

    Hands   Band   Variation  
    Ian McEwan (2010). “Atonement”, p.7, Random House
  • The monstrous sameness and pervasive ugliness so highly characteristic of the findings of modern psychology, and contrasting so obviously with the enormous variety and richness of overt human conduct, witness to the radical difference between the inside and the outside of the human body.

    "The Life of the Mind" by Hannah Arendt, New York, Harcourt, (pp. 34-35), 1978.
  • The real tragedy of England, as I see it, is the tragedy of ugliness. The country is so lovely: the man-made England is so vile.

    Country   Real   Men  
    D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2004). “D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles”, p.291, Cambridge University Press
  • In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.

    Men   Unhappy   World  
    George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.5803, e-artnow
  • Better an ugly face than an ugly mind.

    Mind   Ugly   Faces  
  • With that height, plus a face of an ugliness so transcendant as to be grotesquely beautiful, it was obvious why she had embraced a religious life--Christ was the only man from whom she might expect embrace in return.

    Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.859, Dell
  • Nothing is irredeemably ugly but sin.

    Ugly   Sin   Ugliness  
  • Nobody ever discovered ugliness through photographs. But many, through photographs, have discovered beauty.

    Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.76, Macmillan
  • 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.

    Class   Clothes   House  
    D. H. Lawrence (2017). “Phoenix: the Posthumous Papers of D. H. Lawrence by D. H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.138, Delphi Classics (Parts Edition) via PublishDrive
  • Writing means not just staring ugliness in the face, but finding a way to embrace it.

    Writing   Mean   Way  
  • Art is a course in personal development that has no reliable diploma and no known end. The pursuit of art instructs in beauty as well as ugliness, fantasy as well as common sense. Art levels souls and baffles brains. Art softens pain because it is pain. Art gives joy because it is joy.

    Art   Pain   Common Sense  
  • Maeterlinck says that compared with ordinary truths mystic truths have strange privileges - they can neither age nor die. Beauty is eternal and ugliness, thank God, is ephemeral. Can there be any question as to which should attract the poet?

    The New York Times, December 10, 1916.
  • All of us--all who knew her--felt so wholesome after we cleaned ourselves on her. We were so beautiful when we stood astride her ugliness. Her simplicity decorated us, her guilt sanctified us, her pain made us glow with health, her awkwardness made us think we had a sense of humor. Her inarticulateness made us believe we were eloquent. Her poverty kept us generous. Even her waking dreams we used--to silence our own nightmares.

    Beautiful   Dream   Pain  
    Toni Morrison (2014). “The Bluest Eye”, p.161, Random House
  • Because she knows what it's like to live in a world of black, and black, and the tiny bit of white, but when she escaped it, she didn't find the rainbow of colors, the dresses, the singing, the dancing. She only found ugliness.

    Color   White   Dancing  
    Alexandra Bracken (2016). “Through the Dark: A Darkest Minds Collection”, p.85, Hachette UK
  • Good and evil and beauty and ugliness are only ornamental fruits of perspective, whose sole value lies in their linkage to what chance made our fathers think and feel, and whose finer details are different for every race and culture.

    Father   Lying   Thinking  
    H. P. Lovecraft (2016). “The Call of Cthulhu and Other Stories”, p.139, H. P. Lovecraft
  • Your imagination can focus on ugliness, distress and failure, or it can picture beauty, success, desired results. You decide how you want your imagination to server you.

  • It appears to be a matter of national pride that the President is to have more mud, and blacker mud, and filthier mud in front ofhis door than any other man can afford.

    Pride   Men   Doors  
  • Ugliness is the greatest of all sins.

    Sin   Ugliness  
    I. L. Peretz (2013). “The I. L. Peretz Reader”, p.329, Open Road Media
  • Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.

    Art   Jesus   Hate  
  • Ugliness is a letter of credit for some special purposes.

  • If we fully trust that God is as beautiful as he reveals himself to be on the cross, we must regard the ugly surface appearance of these portraits to reflect the sinful way his people imagined God, not the way God actually is. But when we by faith look through the ugly surface of these portraits, we can see God stooping out of love to meet his people where they are at and to bear their sin, which is why in Scripture he takes on an ugly surface appearance that reflects the ugliness of their sin.

    Beautiful   People   Ugly  
    Source: www.patheos.com
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