Ugliness Quotes - Page 13

• 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.

  Jane Swisshelm

  Pride, Men, Doors

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• Ugliness is nature's contraceptive.

  Gregory Benford

  Contraceptives

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• At the end of the day, the only thing I ever wanted to feel was loved. So I think if I could give someone a piece of advice, it's really learn how to be kind to yourself. In all of our ugliness and all of our brokenness and our bad choices, to really learn to nurture that part of yourself that can be your own big sister in a way.

  Sara Bareilles

  Thinking, Giving, Choices

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Will the leader reflect the ugliness of egotism or the transfigured glory of Christ the Lord?

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Leadership, Christian, Glory

  J. Oswald Sanders (2007). “Spiritual Leadership: Principles of Excellence For Every Believer”, p.157, Moody Publishers

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• I used to come from the village with all that dirt and coarse ugliness like a pain within me, and the simpering pictures in the drawing-room seemed to me like a wicked attempt to find delight in what is false, while we don't mind how hard the truth is for the neighbors outside our walls. I think we have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands.

  George Eliot

  Wall, Pain, Lying

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.259, Penguin

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• It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression "As pretty as an airport." Airports are ugly. Some are very ugly. Some attain a degree of ugliness that can only be the result of a special effort. This ugliness arises because airports are full of people who are tired, cross, and have just discovered that their luggage has landed in Murmansk (Murmansk airport is the only exception of this otherwise infallible rule), and architects have on the whole tried to reflect this in their designs.

  Douglas Adams

  Tired, Airports, Expression

  Douglas Adams (2016). “Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Box Set: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, p.246, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm often a little perplexed, when I read a review of a book, by the quotes that are pulled out as evidence of excellent prose. I don't think great novels are necessarily composed of great prose, or that there's a correlation between beautiful prose and the quality of a work of fiction. A really good, interesting novel will often let a little ugliness get into its words - to create a certain effect, to leave the reader with a certain sense of disorientation.

  Katie Kitamura

  Beautiful, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Success is a rare paint, hides all the ugliness.

  John Suckling

  Paint

  Sir John Suckling (1836). “Selections from the Works of Sir John Suckling”, p.263, London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman

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• It is the sheer ugliness and banality of everyday life which turns my blood to ice and makes me cringe in terror.

  Jean Lorrain

  Blood, Ice, Everyday

  Jean Lorrain (2002). “Nightmares of an Ether-drinker”

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• Industry is the root of all ugliness.

  Oscar Wilde

  Roots, Industry

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations”, p.56, Courier Corporation

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• Now I know the full power of evil. It makes ugliness seem beautiful and goodness seem ugly and weak.

  August Strindberg

  Beautiful, Evil, Ugly

  August Strindberg (1983). “Strindberg, Five Plays”, p.158, Univ of California Press

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• Stanley didn't shy away from true humanity or from the ugliness that all people are capable of.

  Matthew Modine

  People, Humanity, Shy

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• One can get used to ugliness, but never to negligence.

  Coco Chanel

  Used, Negligence

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• The conviction of tragedy that rises out of his [John Dos Passos's] work is the steady protest of a sensitive democratic conscience against the tyranny and the ugliness of society, against the failure of a complete human development under industrial capitalism.

  Alfred Kazin

  Tragedy, Society, Development

  ALFRED kAZIN (1956). “ON NATIVE GROUNDS An Interpretation of Modern American Prose Literature”

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• 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.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Running, Poison, Looks

  Saint Ignatius of Loyola (2012). “The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola”, p.34, Courier Corporation

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• I was amazed and upset by the looks I got just walking around the studio... It illuminates the ugliness and the beauty that exists within each of us, and that's what this story represents to me.

  Gerard Butler

  Upset, Looks, Stories

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• The reproach that superficial people formulate against Manet, that whereas once he painted ugliness, now he paints vulgarity, falls harmlessly to the ground, when we recognize the fact that he paints the truth.

  Stephane Mallarme

  Fall, People, Facts

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• Art once made a cult of beauty. Now we have a cult of ugliness instead. This has made art into an elaborate joke, one which by now has ceased to be funny.

  Roger Scruton

  Art, Made, Cult

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• 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

  Life, Cities, Citizens

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• Man seldom questions the fact that ugliness and evil are to be found in the world. But he's never as ready to accept that life also offers unlimited beauty and potential for joy as well as endless opportunities for pleasure.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Opportunity, Men, Endless Opportunities

  Leo F. Buscaglia (1972). “Love”, Fawcett

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• You have never seen ugliness in a happy face.

  William John Locke

  Faces, Happy Face

  William John Locke (19??). “The Belovd Vagabond”, p.272, Library of Alexandria

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• Ugliness does not sell.

  Raymond Loewy

  Doe, Sells

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• To me, that ugliness, that grotesqueness - that's the essence [of life]. That's where you realize, it's not about all the consonance and the harmony. It's all the parts that are wrong that help explain why we're drawn to something - what the mystery is - just as much as the beautiful things.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Beautiful, Essence, Helping

  "Carrie Brownstein Discusses Her Memoir". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. October 27, 2015.

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• Fashion rests upon folly. Art rests upon law. Fashion is ephemeral. Art is eternal. Indeed what is a fashion really? A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so absolutely unbearable that we have to alter it every six months! It is quite clear that were it beautiful and rational we would not alter anything that combined those two rare qualities. And wherever dress has been so, it has remained unchanged in law and principle for many hundred years.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Fashion, Art

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

  Michel de Montaigne

  Attachment, Long, Vices

  Michel de Montaigne (1973). “Selections from the Essays”, Harlan Davidson

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