Ugly Quotes - Page 21

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

All it takes is for one person to say you’re ugly, and you’re like, I guess I’m ugly. And that was it.

My friends think I'm ugly, I gotta masculine face.

I love that contradiction between the ugly and the nice. It's shot in a very gourmet way in the Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer. But then Grenouille doesn't differentiate between what's commonly considered to be good smells and bad. He just takes it all, like a true collector does.

If I’ve already thought through a situation and have a response prepared ahead of time in the event temptation rears its ugly head, it is that much easier to resist.

The private buildings [of Virginia] are very rarely constructed of stone or brick; much the greatest proportion being of scantlingand boards, plastered with lime. It is impossible to devise things more ugly, uncomfortable, and happily more perishable.

I would not have had that happen to you. Discourtesy is unspeakably ugly to me.

Only that which serves no end is beautiful; everything useful is ugly.

Ideologies are cultural memes. They are the most confining of the cultural memes. That's where culture gets real ugly. It is when you rub up against its ideologies.

Only the beautiful can acknowledge all that is beautiful, and only the ugly can acknowledge all that is ugly as being beautiful. Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

I'm far from perfect, but I don't think I'm ugly.

There are more and more taboos about calling something, anything, ugly.

There is no right or wrong angle for something. The idea of putting the camera in an unfamiliar position is simply to do with film language. Sometimes it is spectacular, sometimes it is ugly, sometimes it is uninteresting.

Beautiful words are ugly motives best friends.

If we operate with a belief in long sweeps of time, we build cathedrals; if we operate from fiscal quarter to fiscal quarter, we build ugly shopping malls.

It takes a long time to make me beautiful, but it goes fast to make me ugly.

I'm happy that I have a look, but I don't over-analyse whether or not it's beautiful or ugly.

At 11, 12 I thought I was clumsy, ugly, a mess, an unappealing person, but I did have the gift of the gab. I had the school record at Haberdashers for consecutive detentions for simply speaking out of turn.

One man’s “ugly” is another man’s “beautiful.

I’d rather be short, fat, and ugly than take after that man. (Nick)

Yeah, it’s me, but I like to think I looked better when we met. ‘Cause right now, I’m pretty much hogging all the ugly. (Nick)

This is getting ugly.” – Abigail “Like my great-aunt’s underpants.” – Sundown

The Simpsons are ugly-looking, and they should be. That's what works. That's one of the things that's funny.

I don't like when people dress intentionally ugly. Personally that's not my thing.

But you weren't born expecting that kind of beauty in everyone, all the time. You just got programmed into thinking anything else is ugly.