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• There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough.

  Josh Billings

  Quality, Enough, Charm

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• Judging from the ugly and repugnant things that are sometimes in vogue, it would seem as though fashion were desirous of exhibiting its power by getting us to adopt the most atrocious things for its sake alone.

  Georg Simmel

  Fashion, Judging, Sake

  Georg Simmel (2008). “Englischsprachige Veröffentlichungen: 1893 - 1910”

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• Photography is a holding together of opposites: Light and dark, beautiful and ugly, sublime and banal, concious and unconcious. I am still struck by the power of photography to strip away the bark of the mind and reveal the visceral workings underneath.

  Jack Welpott

  Beautiful, Photography, Dark

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• I cannot tell by what logic we call a toad, a bear, or an elephant ugly; they being created in those outward shapes and figures which best express the actions of their inward forms.

  Thomas Browne

  Beauty, Elephants, Bears

  Sir Thomas Browne, James Thomas Fields (1862). “Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other Papers”, p.35

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• There are no ugly loves nor handsome prisons.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Attitude, Handsome, Prison

  Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). “Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.277, Oxford University Press, USA

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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, Ugly Things, Secret

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

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• Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Beautiful, Women, Understanding

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.92, Oxford University Press

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• It is the wise man's part to leave in darkness everything that is ugly.

  Euripides

  Wise, Men, Darkness

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, The Children of Heracles, Hippolytus”, p.211, University of Chicago Press

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• Ugly women may be naturally quite as capricious as pretty ones; but as they are never petted and spoiled, and as no allowances are made for them, they soon find themselves obliged either to suppress their whims or to hide them.

  Anatole France

  Women, May, Spoiled

  Anatole France (2016). “The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard”, p.31, Anatole France

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• Ugly deeds are most estimable when hidden.

  Blaise Pascal

  Deeds, Goodness, Noble Deeds

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• Take my wife... please. I'm not saying she's ugly, but when she went to see a horror film, the audience thought she was making a personal appearance.

  Les Dawson

  Wife, Horror, Film

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Language is my bugbear. Everyone says things now like 'I was sat' instead of 'I was sitting', which just sounds so ugly.

  Penelope Keith

  Sound, Sitting, Language

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• Bitterness is so ugly.

  Amy Heckerling

  Bitterness

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Fate does not invite ugly boring people to save the world; and if you do try to save the world (without being beautiful, strong, clever, or wise), you will soon die pointlessly and how much adventure is there in that?

  James Alan Gardner

  Beautiful, Wise, Strong

  James Alan Gardner (2014). “Ascending”, p.7, Open Road Media

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• Shouldn't you have a license for being that ugly?

  Russell Lynes

  Wise, Insult, Being Selfish

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• Moderation sees itself as beautiful; it is unaware that in the eye of the immoderate it appears black and sober and consequently ugly-looking.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Beautiful, Eye, Black

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.167, Cambridge University Press

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• If, while I'm painting, I distort or destroy a motif, it is not a planned or conscious act, but rather it has a different justification: I see the motif, the way I painted it, is somehow ugly or unbearable. Then I try to follow my feelings and make it attractive. And that means a process of painting, changing or destroying - for however long it takes - until I think it has improved. And I don't demand an explanation from myself as to why this is so.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Mean, Thinking

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• To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time, especially in that kind of mock rurality, ugly but odd, and partaking of two natures, which surrounds certain large cities, particularly Paris.

  Victor Hugo

  Cities, Two, Paris

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Marius”, p.9

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• The saying of Protagoras is like the views we have mentioned; he said that man is the measure of all things, meaning simply that that which seems to each man assuredly is. If this is so, it follows that the same thing both is and is not, and is bad and good, and that the contents of all other opposite statements are true, because often a particular thing appears beautiful to some and ugly to others, and that which appears to each man is the measure

  Aristotle

  Beautiful, Men, Views

  Aristotle (2016). “Metaphysics”, p.274, Aristotle

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• You're the reason our kids are ugly.

  Loretta Lynn

  Friendship, Kids, Reason

  Song: You're the Reason Our Kids Are Ugly

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• Tammy Faye said, "I am so happy that Jessica Hahn is so ugly, because now I don't feel so bad."

  Jessica Hahn

  Faye, Said, Feels

  "Encore Presentation: Interview with Jessica Hahn". "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. July 24, 2005.

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• I liked it when we had ugly politicians who droned on about issues.

  Ken Livingstone

  Issues, Politician

  "Ken Livingstone: It's policies that matter this time, not personalities". Interview with Andrew Sparrow, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2012.

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• The real connoisseurs in art are those who make people accept as beautiful something everybody used to consider ugly, by revealing and resuscitating the beauty in it.

  Jules de Goncourt

  Beautiful, Art, Real

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• ... Every circumstance in life, no matter how crooked and distorted and ugly it appears to be, if it is reacted to in love and forgiveness and obedience to your will can be transformed.

  Hannah Hurnard

  Matter, Love And Forgiveness, Obedience

  Hannah Hurnard, Darien Cooper (2015). “Hinds' Feet on High Places: The Original and Complete Allegory with a Devotional and Journal for Women by Darien Cooper”, p.316, Destiny Image Publishers

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• I'm cool with the way I look, I'm not an ugly dog, but I don't see myself as a stud or anything.

  Sean William Scott

  Dog, Looks, Way

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