Ugly Quotes

• In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging. They have been reminded that the history of immigration in this country has a dark underbelly; they need specific reassurances that their citizenship really means something, that America has learned the right lessons from the Japanese internments during World War II, and that I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.

  Barack Obama

  Country, War, Mean

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• Some days are born ugly. From the very first light they are no damn good what ever the weather, and everbody knows it. No one knows what causes this, but on such a day people resist getting out of bed and set their heels against the day. When they are finally forced out by hunger or job they find that the day is just as lousy as they knew it would be.

  John Steinbeck

  Jobs, Light, Weather

  John Steinbeck (2008). “Sweet Thursday”, p.131, Penguin

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• It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Beauty, Beautiful

  'The Picture of Dorian Gray' (1891) ch. 17

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• Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.

  Honore de Balzac

  Beauty, Falling In Love, Stupid

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  Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.

  Redd Foxx

  Beauty, Beautiful, Words Of Wisdom

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• A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

  Thomas Hardy

  Beautiful, Age, Aging

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• My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you're ugly too.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Beauty, Crazy

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• If you permit your thoughts to dwell on evil you yourself will become ugly. Look only for the good in everything so you absorb the quality of beauty.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Evil, Quality, Looks

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• The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

  Thomas Huxley

  Beauty, Beautiful, Education

  "Biogenesis and Abiogenesis" (1870)

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• It's much more fun to be ugly.

  Robert Carlyle

  Fun

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• The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Christian, Thinking, Religion

  'Die fröhliche Wissenschaft' (1882) bk. 3, sect. 130

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• Most people have come to prefer certain of lifes experiences and deny and reject others, unaware of the value of the hidden things that may come wrapped in plain and even ugly paper. In avoiding all pain and seeking comfort at all costs, we may be left without intimacy or compassion; in rejecting change and risk we often cheat ourselves of the quest; in denying our suffering we may never know our strength or our greatness

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Pain, Greatness, Compassion

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.71, Penguin

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• Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused.

  Alan Cohen

  Love, Beauty, Mistake

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• If you work for a living, why do you kill yourself working?

  Eli Wallach

  Good And Bad, Killing Yourself, Bad Movies

  "Fictional character: Tuco". "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", www.imdb.com. 1966.

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• A woman tells her doctor, 'I've got a bad back.' The doctor says, 'It's old age.' The woman says, 'I want a second opinion.' The doctor says: 'Okay - you're ugly as well.'

  Tommy Cooper

  Funny, Crazy, Silly

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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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• Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Adversity, Jewels

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 12

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• 'He is very ugly,' said his mother.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Mother, Said

  Taylor Caldwell (2017). “Great Lion of God: A Novel About Saint Paul”, p.9, Open Road Media

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• No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Beauty, Beautiful

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “Essays and Lectures: Top Essays”, p.91, 谷月社

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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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• You see, in this world, there's two kinds of people, my friend - those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig.

  Clint Eastwood

  Badass, Gun, Two

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• When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk.

  Eli Wallach

  Good And Bad, Western Movie, Bad Movies

  "Fictional character: Tuco". "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", www.imdb.com. 1966.

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• To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature

  Auguste Rodin

  Inspirational, Life, Art

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• It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Beautiful

  Swami Vivekananda (1997). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

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• L.A. makes you feel ugly.

  Rachel Weisz

  Feels

  Interview with Emma Forrest, www.indexmagazine.com. 2001.

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