“ The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
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“ Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion. ”
- Margaret Cho- Copy
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“ The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them. ”
- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne- Copy
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“ It would be ugly to watch people poking sticks at a caged rat. It is uglier still to watch rats poking sticks at a caged person. ”
- Jean Harris- Copy
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“ Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy in its presence. The effect of the ugly can be measured with a dynamometer. Whenever man feels in any way depressed, he senses the proximity of something "ugly… ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
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“ It's nothing to be born ugly. Sensibly, the ugly woman comes to terms with her ugliness and exploits it as a grace of nature. To become ugly means the beginning of a calamity, self-willed most of the time. ”
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette- Copy
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“ I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful. ”
- John Constable- Copy
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“ Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ Know thyself? A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly. ”
- Andre Gide- Copy
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“ I have seen the hippopotamus, both asleep and awake; and I can assure you that, awake or asleep, he is the ugliest of the works of God. ”
- Thomas Babington Macaulay- Copy
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“ The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. ”
- T.H. Buxley- 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
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“ Beauty is the first test; there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics. ”
- G.H. Hardy- Copy
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“ Things could always be worse; for instance, you could be ugly and work in the Post Office. ”
- Adrienne Gusoff- Copy
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“ Yes Madame, I am drunk but you are ugly and tomorrow I'll be sober. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
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“ Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like a toad, though ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in its head. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man. ”
- Erich Fromm- Copy
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“ If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference. ”
- Teena Booth- Copy
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“ Lady Astor: Mr. Churchill, You're drunk! Winston Churchill: Yes, and you Madam, are ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
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“ Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose. ”
- Robin Williams- Copy
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“ I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial. ”
- Charles Baudelaire- Copy
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