Ugly Quotes
Honest lines about the things nobody calls pretty.
Several of these quotes use 'ugly' with a wink, like the familiar complaint about an unflattering bridesmaid dress, while others turn more serious, criticizing a culture that consumes far too much. A few quotes also touch on real geopolitical tensions.
We must erase bin Laden's ugly legacy, not extend it: by ending the Patriot Act's erosion of our civil liberties, we can protect the freedoms that make America worth fighting for.
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But Hezbollah now has reared its ugly head in a way that threatens the entire free world. And they want, by their own charter and definition, the destruction of Israel and Christians. That is the truth. That is in their...
Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.
Beautiful Quotes
Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
You think your friends have good taste in fashion, until they ask you to wear an ugly bridesmaid dress!
People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much.
My first job in Brazil was actually to develop a way to improve the readability of billboards, and based on speed, angle of approach and actually blocks of text. It was very - actually, it was a very good study,...
I like to find the beauty in the ugly. When I'm in a thrift store, I gravitate toward pieces I know I'll wear a ton, and insane pieces that I'm sure most people would consider gross. But I find them...
Beauty Quotes
I've picked up a lot of fans from doing 'Ugly Betty': a lot of teenagers who didn't even know I had a singing career.
My number one style requirement is to have fun getting dressed. Nothing is too old, expensive, cheap, cute or ugly for me.
I was the overweight kid who didn't have a boyfriend. I listened to other people say, 'You're ugly, you're fat, you're stupid,' and I believed it.
I was raised in Hawaii in what I call a 'faith-inclusive' family. I never felt I had to choose loyalty to the New Testament over the Bhagavad Gita. It really wasn't until my late teens that I became aware of...
I think that a lot of us subconsciously would like to live in a world in which good things were beautiful and bad things were ugly. But that's not how the world works.
Good Quotes
I was told my whole life, you're fat, you're ugly, you're never going to amount to be anything.
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.
New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly; it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else.
It's great if a pilot starts off great and if it doesn't start off so great it's not that big a deal: everybody's baby is born ugly. But you want to know, if given the opportunity: Where are we going?...
A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on...
Life Quotes
The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
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One quote traces the word into a design career, describing early work making billboard text readable at a glance and at speed. For related reading, see our beauty quotes or the more upbeat beautiful quotes page.
