“ Truth is not beautiful, neither is ugly. Why should it be either? Truth is Truth. ”
- Owen C. Middleton- Copy
- 3.6K
“ When I write I don't aim to shock people, and I'm surprised when I do. But I don't think that anything that occurs in life should be omitted from art, though the artist should present it in a fashion that is artistic and not ugly. I set out to tell the truth… ”
- Tennessee Williams- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Nothing can be more shocking and horrid than one of our kitchens sprinkled with blood, and abounding with the cries of expiring victims or with the limbs of dead animals scattered or hung up here and there. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
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“ Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast, Is that portentous phrase, 'I told you so.'. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
- 3.6K
“ What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain. ”
- Victor Hugo- Copy
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“ I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle. ”
- Heinrich Heine- Copy
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“ An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful. ”
- Queen Victoria- Copy
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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- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out. ”
- Steven Weinberg- Copy
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“ When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion. ”
- C. P. Snow- Copy
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“ Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing. ”
- Dave Barry- Copy
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“ Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ Thank goodness you're a failure — it's why I so distinguish you! Anything else to-day is too hideous. Look about you — look at the successes. Would you BE one, on your honour? ”
- Henry James- Copy
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“ Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ Isn't Hollywood a dump — in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of the human spirit at a new low of debasement. ”
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald- Copy
- 426
“ Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease. ”
- D. H. Lawrence- Copy
- 374
“ It is the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste. the Cathedral of Asphalt. ”
- Robert Moses- Copy
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“ They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them. ”
- Desiderius Erasmus- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Vice is a creature of such hideous mien…that the more you see it, the better you like it. ”
- Finley Peter Dunne- Copy
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