Ugly Quotes

“I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion

“If all we had were roses, would the thorns then be beautiful?”
― Kamand Kojouri

“It's 4am again and I'm just getting started. People are boring and I want to burn with excitement or anger and bleed, bleed through my words. I want to get all fucked up and write real and raw and ugly and beautifully. I bet you're sleeping safe and calm, and you can stay there, it's safer there, and you wouldn't stand one night on this journey my mind wanders off to every night you close your eyes. I'll stay here one day and I will never come down.
I promise I can fly before I hit the ground.
It doesn't even hurt anymore.
I swear, it doesn't hurt.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps

“She felt dirty, ugly and tired. She felt like a marshmallow heading into a house fire armed with chocolate and graham crackers.”
― Benjamin R. Smith, Atlas

“I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across—not to just depict life—or criticize it—but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can’t do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can’t believe in it. Things aren’t that way.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“I dare you to say I’m not ugly.”
― Angela Morrison, Sing Me to Sleep

“This singularity of meaning--I was my face, I was ugliness--though sometimes unbearable, also offered a possible point of escape. It became the launching pad from which to lift off, the one immediately recognizable place to point to when asked what was wrong with my life. Everything led to it, everything receded from it--my face as personal vanishing point.”
― Lucy Grealy, Autobiography of a Face

“Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“If it looks like a duck and sounds like a duck, it could be a really ugly swan.”
― Timmothy Radman

“I walk to Oxford Street and climb on the number 8. It's freezing and it starts to rain and it's the ugliest bus I've ever seen, rattling down the ugliest streets, in the ugliest city, in the ugliest country, in the ugliest of all possible worlds.”
― David Thewlis, The Late Hector Kipling

“Accentuated plainness and accentuated vice ought to bring about harmony. Beauty lies in harmony, in style, whether it be the harmony of ugliness or beauty, vice or virtue.”
― Yevgeny Zamyatin, Islanders & The Fisher of Men

“Nancy Astor: "Winston, you are a drunk!"
Winston Churchill: "And you, madam, are ugly. But I shall be sober in the morning."
(Reported exchange will Winston Churchill.”
― Nancy Astor the Viscountess Astor

“No one likes it, apart from blind people, and I'm sure even they can sense it's profound ugliness as it passes by.”
― Richard Curtis

“I remember scrutinizing his face. I remember drinking his face down to the last drop, trying to elucidate the character, the psychology of such an individual. And yet the only thing about him that has remained is my memory of his ugliness.”
― Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

“This boy," he said, indicating the paintings with one sweep of his arms, "was romantic. He thought that it was beauty that bound everything together. And for him it was true. Life had been beautiful for him. He was very young. He knew very little of life. He saw beauty but he did not feel any true passion. How could he? He did not know. He had not really encountered the force of beauty's opposite."
"Are you more cynical now, then?" she asked him.
"Cynical," he frowned, "No, not that. I know that there is an ugly side of life-and not just human life. I know that everything is not simply beautiful. I am not a romantic as this boy was. But I am not a cynic either. There is something enduring in all of life, Anne, something tough. Something. Something terribly weak yet incredibly powerful...”
― Mary Balogh, Simply Love

“They're brainless girls, otherwise they wouldn't be seen dead here. They're pretty, with ugly, appealing smiles and conversations we can't hear. They breathe smoke and blow it out, and words drop from their mouths and get crushed to the floor. Or they get discarded, just to glow with warmth for a moment, for someone else to tread on later.”
― Markus Zusak, Fighting Ruben Wolfe

“The ugliness at the heart of beauty. Is there always ugliness, do you suppose? Even when the object is very, very beautiful?”
― Mary Balogh, A Secret Affair

“LOVE the hideous in order to find the sublime core of it.”
― Mina Loy, The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems

“He used to say the uglier things are the longer they live, and the ugliest things live forever.”
― Mal Peet, The Penalty

“A beautiful world with ugly people; an ugly world with beautiful people. We can never win.”
― Anthony Liccione

“It's funny how the ugly duckling always has so many beautiful things to teach us.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“Rude girls are ugly. I don't care how pretty you are. If your personality is ugly then you’re ugly.”
― Nitya Prakash

“-and then what happened?- I asked him, but I had no desire to know. Whatever it was, it has to be ugly.”
― Michael F. Moore, Quiet Chaos

“The ugliness didn't matter - after all, there was no one to see me.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“Nachiketa was the commander of the Rongcha army, and the king’s son-in-law. He was so cruel that he had no reason to be ugly, and he was so ugly that he had no reason to be cruel.”
― Shon Mehta, The Timingila

“I, that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty
To strut before a wanton ambling nymph;
I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion,
Cheated of feature by dissembling nature,
Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time
Into this breathing world, scarse half made up,
And that so lamely and unfashionable
That dogs bark at me as I halt by them.”
― William Shakespeare, Richard III

“Some were made ugly for seeing the ugliness of people, whereas the pure saw beauty and were made beautiful.”
― Criss Jami

“Many USA people are fat, ugly, sick and on drugs from their forties onward.”
― Steven Magee

“I am as old as the mountains
Abd as ugly as the rough terrain”
― Avijeet Das

“I am as old as the mountains,
And as ugly as the rough terrain...”
― Avijeet Das