Ugly Women Quotes - Page 2

• Woman makes half the sorrows which she boasts the privilege to sooth. Woman consoles us, it is true, while we are young and handsome; when we are old and ugly, woman snubs and scolds us. On the whole, then, woman in this scale, the weed in that. Jupiter! Hang out thy balance, and weigh them both; and if thou give the preference to woman, all I can say is, the next time Juno ruffles thee, O Jupiter, try the weed.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Weed, Giving, Smoking

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• It is better to be first with an ugly woman than the hundreth with a beauty.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Ugly, Firsts

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Even monarchs have need of authors, and fear their pens more than ugly women the painter's pencil.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Writing, Needs, Ugly

  Baltasar Gracian (2006). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.113, Shambhala Publications

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• When you find yourself in bed with an ugly woman, the best thing to do is close your eyes and get on with it

  George R. R. Martin

  Eye, Finding Yourself, Bed

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.302, Bantam

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• Never marry a beautiful woman. A beautiful woman will leave you. An ugly woman will leave you, too, but so what?

  Rick Majerus

  Beautiful, Beautiful Women, Ugly

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• There are no bad books any more than there are ugly women.

  Anatole France

  Book, Reading, Ugly

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• Indeed, there is no such thing as an altogether ugly woman — or altogether beautiful.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Beautiful, Women, Ugly

  "Autobiography: Comprising the Life of the Wisest Man of His Times".

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• I want you to say dreadfully mad, funny things and make up songs and be--' The Will I fell in love with, she almost said. "And be Will," she finished instead. "Or I shall hit you with my umbrella." *** "You would make a very ugly woman." "I would not. I would be stunning." Tessa laughed. “There,” she said. “There is Will. Isn’t that better? Don’t you think so?” “I don’t know,” Will said, eyeing her. “I’m afraid to answer that. I’ve heard that when I speak, it makes American women wish to strike me with umbrellas.

  Cassandra Clare

  Song, Thinking, Funny Things

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• A beautiful woman, Simone Weil said, seeing herself in the mirror, knows "This is I." An ugly woman knows with equal certainty, "This is not I." Maud knew this neat division represented an over-simplification. The doll-mask she saw had nothing to do with her, nothing.

  A. S. Byatt

  Beautiful, Mirrors, Dolls

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• An ugly woman, married to King Henry VIII, would have defied the axe and daunted her husband's infidelities.

  Honore de Balzac

  Kings, Husband, Wife

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• An ugly woman in a rich habit set out with jewels nothing can become.

  John Dryden

  Jewels, Ugly, Rich

  John Dryden (1800). “The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected : with Notes and Illustrations”, p.341

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• The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Beauty, Fashion, Hair

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• Do you know how an ugly woman feels? Do you know what it is to be ugly all your life and inside to feel that you are beautiful? It is very rare.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Beautiful, Ugly, Feels

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• I am persuaded that foolish writers and foolish readers are created for each other; and that fortune provides readers as she does mates for ugly women.

  Horace Walpole

  Writing, Doe, Ugly

  Horace Walpole, Peter Cunningham (1857). “The letters of Horace Walpole, earl of Orford”, p.494

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• I grant an ugly woman is a blot on the fair face of creation; but as to the gentleman, let them be solicitous to possess only strength and valour: let their motto be:Hunt, shoot, and fight: the rest is not worth a flip.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Fighting, Gentleman, Ugly

  1847 Jane Eyre ch.17.

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• I love Sweden. In Sweden, the women are just so hot. Their vibe is so amazing. You feel like every girl out there was genetically altered to just be hot. I did not see one ugly woman out there, it was just a line of continuously hot girls.

  Kid Cudi

  Girl, Hot, Sweden

  "The Kid Cudi Interview" by Patrick McGuire, thewamagazine.com. 2009.

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• the power of beauty:what must the world be like for ugly women?

  Paulo Coelho

  World, Ugly, Eleven Minutes

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• A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.

  Simone Weil

  Beautiful, Believe, Mirrors

  Simone Weil (1973). “Waiting for God”

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