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Ugliness Quotes

We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.

We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.

Plotinus (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Plotinus - Complete Enneads (Illustrated)”, p.545, Delphi Classics

Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.

"The Black Prism". Book by Brent Weeks, August 25, 2010.

What is commonly called ugliness in nature can in art become full of beauty.

Auguste Rodin (2012). “Rodin on Art and Artists”, p.19, Courier Corporation

Ugliness without tact is horrible.

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Claude Mitchell Simpson, William Charvat, Ohio State Center for Textual Studies (1972). “The Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne: The American notebooks”

Ugliness is the greatest of all sins.

I. L. Peretz (2013). “The I. L. Peretz Reader”, p.329, Open Road Media

I have no right to beauty. I had been condemned to masculine ugliness.

Renée Vivien (1979). “At the sweet hour of hand in hand”

... all ugliness passes, and beauty endures, excepting of the skin.

Edith Sitwell (Dame), John Lehmann, Derek Parker (1970). “Selected letters”, MacMillan

You have never seen ugliness in a happy face.

William John Locke (19??). “The Belovd Vagabond”, p.272, Library of Alexandria

Success is a rare paint, hides all the ugliness.

Sir John Suckling (1836). “Selections from the Works of Sir John Suckling”, p.263, London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman

The wrong of unshapely things is a wrong too great to be told; I hunger to build them anew and sit on a green knoll apart.

William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

Industry is the root of all ugliness.

Oscar Wilde (2012). “Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations”, p.56, Courier Corporation