Ugly Things Quotes

• Insecurity is an ugly thing. It makes you hate people you don't even know.

  Drake

  Hate, Insecure, People

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• Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

  Jean Cocteau

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Fashion

  New York World Telegram & Sun, August 21, 1960.

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• 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.

  John Stuart Mill

  Military, War, Patriotic

  "The Contest in America", Fraser's Magazine, February 1862.

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• Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time.

  Jean Cocteau

  Beautiful, Fashion, Art

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• A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

  John Stuart Mill

  Freedom, War, Military

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• Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

  Jean Cocteau

  Death, Dying, Birth

  "Postambule". "La Fin du Potomac". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1939.

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• There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.

  Jean Cocteau

  Virtue

  "Cock and harlequin: Notes concerning music". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1921.

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• One thing that's certain: around the corner from every ugly thing, there's something really beautiful. If we stop at every bitter interaction; we'll never reach our destination.

  Soledad O'Brien

  Beautiful, Bitter, Destination

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• Maybe we all have in us a secret pond where evil and ugly things germinate and grow strong. But this culture is fences, and the swimming brood climbs up only to fall back. Might it not be that in the dark pools of some men the evil grows strong enough to wriggle over the fence and swim free? Would not such a man be our monster, and are we not related to him in our own hidden water? It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.

  John Steinbeck

  Strong, Fall, Angel

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• Nature holds the beautiful, for the artist who has the insight to extract it. Thus, beauty lies even in humble, perhaps ugly things, and the ideal, which bypasses or improves on nature, may not be truly beautiful in the end.

  Albrecht Durer

  Beautiful, Lying, Humble

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• I think it is every woman's duty to make herself as attractive as her time and means permit. After all, there you are, in your person- a living symbol of the progress of art, science and imagination. To be as attractive as we can be is almost a civic duty; there are so many sad and ugly things in the world that I think women should say to themselves humbly, not with vanity, 'I will try to be as pretty as I can, so that when people look at me, they will feel refreshed. I will make an effort to be easy on the eye.'

  Ilka Chase

  Art, Mean, Eye

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• Since I have introduced this term I had always a bad conscience. . . . I cannot help to feel it strongly and I am unable to believe that such an ugly thing should be realized in nature.

  Albert Einstein

  Believe, Helping, Astronomy

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• 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

  America, Pretentious, Given

  Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan

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• A boyfriend or a girlfriend may be fun, but cannot become a door to the deepest that is hidden in each and everyone. With a girlfriend you can be sexually related, but love cannot grow. Love needs deep roots. Sexuality is possible on the surface, but sexuality is just animal, biological. It can be beautiful if it is part of a deeper love, but if it is not part of a deeper love it is the most ugly thing possible; the ugliest, because then there is no communion - you simply touch each other and separate. Only bodies meet, but not you - not I, not thou. This has happened in all relationships.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Girlfriend, Fun

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• It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblences to merit.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, May, Merit

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• I am going to work with people who hold similar views to me inside Congress, outside of Congress to make certain that we come together to stop Trump from doing some of the very ugly things that he has talked about doing.

  Bernie Sanders

  Views, People, Together

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• People do pretty ugly things to make themselves feel better, this I do know.

  Mariah Fredericks

  Feel Better, People, Feels

  Mariah Fredericks (2012). “The Girl in the Park”, p.14, Schwartz & Wade

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• There was a taboo as a result of the Holocaust that people respected that anti-Semitism was an ugly thing and should be avoided. Now that taboo seems to have been broken with impunity.

  Steven T. Katz

  People, Broken, Holocaust

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• [K]now that however ugly the parts appear the whole remains beautiful. A severed hand Is an ugly thing, and man dissevered from the earth and stars and his history... for contemplation or in fact... Often appears atrociously ugly. Integrity is wholeness, the greatest beauty is Organic wholeness, the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty of the universe.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Beauty, Beautiful, Stars

  Robinson Jeffers, James Karman, Una Jeffers (2009). “The Collected Letters of Robinson Jeffers: With Selected Letters of Una Jeffers”, p.65, Stanford University Press

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• A rather ugly thing starts happening: the playwright finds himself knocked down for works that quite often are just as good or better than the works he's been praised for previously. And a lot of playwrights become confused by this and they start doing imitations of what they've done before, or they try to do something entirely different, in which case they get accused by the same critics of not doing what they used to do so well.

  Edward Albee

  Confused, Trying, Different

  Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.47, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Fashion: a beautiful thing that becomes ugly. Art: an ugly thing that becomes beautiful.

  Coco Chanel

  Beautiful, Fashion, Art

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• In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing, like a hidden physical defect.

  Isak Dinesen

  Men, Secret, Mind

  Isak Dinesen (2011). “Last Tales”, p.61, Vintage

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• It's the ugly things I notice more, because other people tend to ignore the ugly things.

  Alexander McQueen

  People, Ugly

  "Alexander McQueen Exhibition Extended Until August 7th" by Margie Goldsmith, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 8, 2011.

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• I never saw an ugly thing in my life.

  John Constable

  Ugly, Shade, Saws

  Quoted in Charles Robert Leslie, Memoirs of the Life of John Constable (1843)

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• I've been called a racist before, and let me tell you something - that is harsh. That's a really ugly thing to call someone. That's like being called a Mexican.

  Bonnie McFarlane

  Mexican, Racist, Harsh

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