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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
Ugliness without tact is horrible. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant. -- Douglas Horton
Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued. -- Jean Rostand
From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world. -- Andrei Platonov
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I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it. -- Salvador Dali
Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness. -- Ouida
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. -- Oscar Wilde
Absolute and entire ugliness is rare. -- John Ruskin
Nothing is irredeemably ugly but sin. -- Honore de Balzac
Better an ugly face than an ugly mind. -- James Ellis
Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts. -- Serge Gainsbourg
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lord Chesterfield designated ugly women as the third sex; how shall we place ugly men. -- Anna Cora Mowatt
What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness. -- Joseph Brodsky
One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom anpther's folly. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough. -- Josh Billings
It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness. -- Thornton Wilder
America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious. -- Goldwin Smith
When the eye fails to find beauty-alias solace-it commands the body to create it, or, failing that, adjusts itself to perceive virtue in ugliness. -- Joseph Brodsky
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
Its taken me a long time to become the person I am, for all the ugliness to fall away. The rotten flesh is gone, and the seed is there. I can touch that now. -- Lynn Johnston
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
Absolute ugliness is admitted as rarely as perfect beauty; but degrees of it more or less distinct are associated with whatever has the nature of death and sin, just as beauty is associated with what has the nature of virtue and of life. -- John Ruskin
The lovers of beauty must unite in a league, and carry out some great propagandist work through the country. They must demand the extermination of the bulldog and the dismantling of the cheap villa, both of which are responsible for a deal of our contentment amid ugliness. -- Robert Wilson Lynd
Ugliness is nature's contraceptive. -- Gregory Benford
Ugliness does not sell. -- Raymond Loewy
Beauty is lyrical. Ugliness is elegiac. -- Mason Cooley
Ugliness is the greatest of all sins. -- I. L. Peretz
Ugliness is superior to beauty because it lasts longer. -- Serge Gainsbourg
Ugliness is a letter of credit for some special purposes. -- Lord Chesterfield
Ugliness has its own splendor when it houses a soul of beauty. -- James L. Farmer, Jr.
Ugliness corrupts not only the eyes, but also the heart and mind. -- Henry van de Velde
Life has its beauty in its simplicity. Ugliness raises her head with complexity. -- Debasish Mridha
If you think something is ugly, look harder. Ugliness is just a failure of seeing. -- Matt Haig
...beauty, she had discovered occupied a narrow band. Ugliness, on the hand, had infinite variation. -- Ian Mcewan
Ugliness is better than beauty. It lasts longer and in the end, gravity will get us all. -- Johnny Depp
Ugliness is an illusion, gentlemen. Like beauty. Like color. All depends on the light. The only reality is action. -- Karen Traviss
Equality of Ugliness: If we can't all live in a beautiful place we must all live in an ugly place. -- Theodore Dalrymple
He was ugly, himself. Weird-ugly. But ugliness in a man doesn't matter, much. Ugliness in a woman is her life. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Ugliness is more inventive than beauty. Beauty always follows certain camps. I think it's more amusing - ugliness - than beauty. -- Umberto Eco
Usually redemption implies rescue - being saved. What were you being saved from?' he inquired, his voice carefully neutral. 'Ugliness. -- Amy Harmon
Applied good taste is a mark of good citizenship. Ugliness is a from of anarchy.. ugly cities, ugly advertising, ugly lives produce bad citizens. -- Lester Beall
Advice for a human. 81. You can't find happiness looking for the meaning of life. Meaning is only the third most important thing. It comes after loving and being. 82. If you think something is ugly, look harder. Ugliness is just a failure of seeing. -- Matt Haig
Only ugliness is obscene. -- Mary Quant
People are reminded that it's not all ugliness in the world. -- Thomas Kincade
I love it when ugliness is beautiful. I love character flaws. -- Marcia Gay Harden
I have no right to beauty. I had been condemned to masculine ugliness. -- Renee Vivien
I'm not that obsessed with making representations of ugliness. Everything I've seen is beautiful. -- Otto Dix
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
A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should not use one uniform expression. -- Mo Yan
Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent. -- Sharon Tate
Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma. -- Oriana Fallaci
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. -- John Ortberg
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. -- Jane Jacobs
They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not look like this if I am corrupt. Some ugliness would settle down on my system. -- Imelda Marcos
I don't know what my formula is. I only know I like my characters to walk in clouds. I like a little bit of the fairy tale. Let others photograph the ugliness of the world. I don't want to distress people. -- Leo McCarey
That was' one time when my technique absolutely deserted me, I must admit. There was a wax face that he had created himself to cover his own ugliness. I was in his clutches and I had to hit him in the face. -- Fay Wray
Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty, how many ghastly, mortifying missteps, how many days of granitic blockheadedness and dismaying ineptitude there is on the way to accomplishment, how partial all accomplishment is, how incomplete? -- Tony Kushner
I like to have Chinese furniture in my home as a constant and painful reminder of how much has been destroyed in China. The contrast between the beauty of the past and the ugliness of the modern is nowhere sharper than in China. -- Jung Chang
A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder. -- Stephen King
We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease. -- Wendell Berry
The repercussion of ugliness is endless. -- Massimo Vignelli
What makes sovereign ugliness are our conventions. -- Eugene Delacroix
Some men's ugliness is hard to beat. -- George D. Prentice
Industry is the root of all ugliness. -- Oscar Wilde
Few persons comprehend the power of ugliness. -- Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau
I prefer ugliness to beauty, because ugliness endures. -- Serge Gainsbourg
Dreams surround our desires with ugliness and dread. -- Mason Cooley
Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness. -- Brent Weeks
I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness. -- Imelda Marcos
Whats beauty anyway but ugliness if it hurts you? -- Jean Toomer
Success is a rare paint, hides all the ugliness. -- John Suckling
You have never seen ugliness in a happy face. -- William John Locke
The job of art is to chase ugliness away. -- Bono
Never forget to see the beauty, even in ugliness. -- Debasish Mridha
TV in all its ugliness can be a beautiful thing. -- Dan Harmon
When will you ever accept the true ugliness of health? -- Kobo Abe
One can get used to ugliness, but never to negligence. -- Coco Chanel
Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness. -- Daniel Goleman
... all ugliness passes, and beauty endures, excepting of the skin. -- Edith Sitwell
Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
Beauty is only skin deep; ugliness goes all the way through. -- Edward Abbey
I'm surrounded by young and beautiful people. I hate looking at ugliness. -- Karl Lagerfeld
With sin comes fatigue. With repentance comes temptation. With beatification comes ugliness." -- Bauvard
If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is ugliness. -- Rodney Dangerfield
Happiness does away with ugliness, and even makes the beauty of beauty. -- Henri Frederic Amiel
Tremendous beauty and tremendous ugliness puts you on the outside of things. -- Peter Bogdanovich
Elegance in objects is everybody's right, and it shouldn't cost more than ugliness. -- Paola Antonelli
Phoenix, Arizona: an oasis of ugliness in the midst of a beautiful wasteland. -- Edward Abbey
Nobody ever discovered ugliness through photographs. But many, through photographs, have discovered beauty. -- Susan Sontag
The immersive ugliness of our everyday environments in America is entropy made visible. -- James Howard Kunstler
Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness -- Marie Louise De La Ramee
There is an ugliness in being paid for work one does not like. -- Anais Nin
UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility. -- Ambrose Bierce
The highways of American cities are an enduring testimony to our acceptance of ugliness -- J. Rufus Fears
The ugliness of bigotry stands in direct contradiction to the very meaning of America. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
The ugliness of the ideological lies in its legitimating the pursuit of the trivial. -- John Carroll
Paris, like every pretty woman, is subject to inexplicable whims of beauty and ugliness. -- Honore de Balzac
Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty. -- Dodie Smith
People should not be responding to bigoted ugliness with any ugliness of their own. -- Tim Soutphommasane
Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The ugliness of the beauty is much horrible than the ugliness of the ugliness. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
What is commonly called ugliness in nature can in art become full of beauty. -- Auguste Rodin
The malevolence of men revealed itself to his mind in all of its ugliness -- Voltaire
The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness. -- Massimo Vignelli
Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: but with poverty everything becomes frightful. -- Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
It's been a long rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness. -- Gregory Maguire
...beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments. -- Jean Genet
The strange, unbeautiful face beautiful in its ugliness; the perfect, beautiful face ugly in its perfection. -- Eric Maisel
Talk about beauty and you get boring answers, but talk about ugliness and things get interesting. -- Rem Koolhaas
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness. -- George Bernard Shaw
Will the leader reflect the ugliness of egotism or the transfigured glory of Christ the Lord? -- J. Oswald Sanders
God gives us the ugliness so we don't take the beautiful things in life for granted. -- Colleen Hoover
In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness. -- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
The ugliness can sometimes be super ugly, but also a warning sign of something down below. -- David Brooks
Writing means not just staring ugliness in the face, but finding a way to embrace it. -- Veronica Roth
I learned to see beauty in everything and ugliness in everything. I developed a very honest perspective. -- Gerard Way
The popularity of punk rock was, in effect, due to the fact that it made ugliness beautiful. -- Malcolm Mclaren

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