Best 492 quotes in «ugly quotes» category

Often the soul is ripened into fuller goodness while age has spread an ugly film, so that mere glances can never divine the preciousness of the fruit.

Once sex rears its ugly 'ead it's time to steer clear.

One can't live without fear, it's a question of what is your attitude towards fear? I'm afraid of a sordid death. I'm afraid that I will die in an ugly or squalid way, and cancer can be very vigorous in that respect.

One age misunderstands another; and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own ugly way.

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.

One of the ugly secrets of the renewable-energy industry is that its products make no economic sense unless they are highly subsidized.

Oh, I was an ugly kid. My old man took me to the zoo. They thanked him for returning me.

People really, really hate their religion being criticized. It's as though you've said they had an ugly face; they seem to identify personally with it.

People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much.

Philosophy gets its ugly head into everything, but I don't think we live philosophy anymore. It's done.

Out of ugly, make something beautiful.

Politics is so personal, vicious and immediate, how are you going to get anything done? Even the local politics where I live have gotten so ugly.

Politics is just show business for ugly people.

Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.

Politics, of course, requires sweat, work, combat, and organization. But these should not be ugly words for and free people.

Pride is ugly. It says 'If you succeed I am a failure.'

Poverty often hides her charms under an ugly mask; yet thousands have been forced into greatness by their very struggle to keep the wolf from the door.

Pretty girls don't have ugly mouths.

Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact.

Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.

She was ugly from the front, and I said ugly, ugly, ugly, ugly, ugly. Well, I could handle it behind her.

She wished she could understand her reaction to him. Why, her heart was pacing a wild beat again. Madelyne dared a quick look up and found Duncan was watching her intently. He looked so handsome. She wanted him to be ugly.

See, the thing of it is, there's a lot of ugly people out there walking around but they don't know they're ugly because nobody actually tells them.

She was so ugly she could make a mule back away from an oat bin.

Since our persons are not of our own making, when they are such as appear defective or uncomely, it is, methinks, an honest and laudable fortitude to dare to be ugly.

She looked around. They had drifted far away from the bank of the canal. "Are we stealing this boat?" "Stealing' is such an ugly word," he mused. "What do you want to call it?" He picked her up and swung her around before putting her down. "An extreme case of window-shopping.

So-called designer bags are useless, and most are also ugly, faddish and overpriced. Pared down and sleek is always best.

Some people are scared to tell the truth, but I'm going to tell you the Good, the bad, the ugly," it's like, "Let's go there. Let's talk about it.

So what you are doing, be aware, observe it, and then go on meditating. Soon you will begin to feel the change. Now there is no possessiveness in relationship. By and by, possessiveness disappears. And when possessiveness is not there, relationship has a beauty of its own. When possessiveness is there, everything becomes dirty, ugly, inhuman.

So I fell in love with a rich attorney's Elderly ugly daughter.

Sometimes love can be an ugly thing.

So when somebody asks me to make a decision about a situation, I don't offer a solution, I ask a question: What are our options? Give me the good, give me the bad, give me the pretty, give me the ugly, give me the impossible, give me the possible, give me the convenient, give me the inconvenient. Give me the options. All I want are options. And once I have all the options before me, then I comfortably and confidently make my decision.

Spy' is such a short ugly word. I prefer 'espionage.' Those extra three syllables really say something.

Suppose someone were to say: 'Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is, but ugly instead of beautiful'?!

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

Swans are majestic, beautiful looking creatures. With really ugly temperaments.

Sin turns ugly and is subject to defeat only when seen in the light of Christ's beauty.

Telling the truth is a beautiful act even if the truth itself is ugly.

Tell him that PDP women in every nook and cranny, wherever we are, young or old, beautiful or ugly, tall or short, small or big, we are chanting to Nigerians: all we are saying, give us Goodluck.

That's the way I feel about the world: there are certain problems that can only be dealt with that way - going out and doing them. As ugly a truth as that is, I do think it's the truth about the world.

Tattoos are so widespread, so ugly and so very, very permanent. You can, in theory, have them removed - but a large chunk of your living flesh will go with it.

The combination of drugs, homosexuality, some good prose recited on screen. . . . In the sweat lodge ceremony we went through, did you get any glimpse of the Ugly Spirit, what that was historically or biographically?

Thanks a heap coyote ugly. This cactus-gram stings worse than your abandonment.

The consequence of this is that I'm always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty, and I wonder how the same thing can be both.

The beauty of a cuckoo is in its notes, that of a woman in her unalloyed devotion to her husband, that of an ugly person in his scholarship, and that of an ascetic in his forgiveness.

The media paint ugly pictures about you.

The complexion of a novelist is seldom rosy (Paul Bailey once announced to a heavy-hearted audience of novelists at PEN that we have always been an ugly tribe). We are engaged in indoor activity, haemorrhoidal, prone to chillblains, poor of circulation.

The more ugly, old, nasty, ill, and poor I become the more I want to get my own back by producing vibrant, well-arranged, radiant colour.

The more ugly, older, more cantankerous, more ill and poorer I become, the more I try to make amends by making my colours more vibrant, more balanced and beaming.

The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic.