Top 94 Quotes About Uglier
#1. Everything's uglier close up," she said.
"Not you," I answered.
John Green
#2. It gets harder the more you know. Because the more you find out the uglier everything seems.
Frank Zappa
#3. There is very little uglier than plowed snow. The roads are clear, though, and all the sidewalks are tinted blue from the salt. It feels like walking over the remnants of a Smurf slaughter.
Dot Hutchison
#4. I doubt if there is anything in the world uglier than a Midwestern city.
Frank Lloyd Wright
#5. I know of nothing uglier or more saddening than a machine-flailed hedge. It speaks of the disdain of nature and craft that still dominates our agriculture.
Roger Deakin
#7. He had better get married soon, because he's getting uglier every day!
Mark Recchi
#8. The most wonderful revenge you can have is by dumping an attractive, vacant man for an uglier one. That way all of his friends can scratch their heads, and for the next year or so wonder why.
Perry Brass
#9. You can't find an uglier urban environment than the centre of Hollywood, but then you go to Griffith Park, you go to the beach, you go to the mountains, and it's rural. I live up in the Hollywood Hills and I have frogs, owls, coyotes, mountain lions - but I'm ten minutes from the centre of the city.
Moby
#11. If making things seem prettier than they are is a lie, then making them seem uglier must be another.
Richard Russo
#12. 1.A green-glass beanstalk
2.An abstract represenation of a tree
3.A greener, glassier, uglier Washingtong Movement
4. The Jolly Green Giant's gigantic jolly green phallus.
John Green
#13. God! Is there anything uglier than a frightened man!
Jean Anouilh
#14. Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
Anton Chekhov
#15. There are days where I've lost weight and I feel bigger or fatter or uglier and I want to just hibernate. I'll find every excuse not to exercise. I hate it.
Carnie Wilson
#16. [The Player is] not a truthful indictment of Hollywood. It's much uglier than I portrayed it, but nobody would've been interested if I'd shown just how sadistic, cruel and self-orientated it is.
Robert Altman
#17. Perhaps all our troubles - all the violence, obesity, illness, depression, and greed we can't overcome - began when we stopped living as Running People. Deny your nature, and it will erupt in some other, uglier way.
Christopher McDougall
#18. Never was there a dingier, uglier, less picturesque city than London ... it is really wonderful that so much brick and stone, for centuries together, should have been built up with so poor a result.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#19. The truth gets uglier the longer you try to hold it down.
Lara Adrian
#20. His mother was ugly and his father was ugly, but Shrek was uglier than the two of them put together. By the time he toddled, Shrek could spit flame a full ninety-nine yards and vent smoke from either ear.
William Steig
#21. Rejection makes you uglier, acceptance makes you, all the more, good-looking!
Kamini Arichandran
#22. There are few uglier traits of human nature than this tendency - which I now witnessed in men no worse than their neighbours - to grow cruel, merely because they possessed the power of inflicting harm.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#23. Uglier than death backin' outta the outhouse readin' mad magazine and crazy as a football bat.
Alan Moore
#24. Everything's uglier up close.
Not you.
John Green
#25. I wanted to write a story set in the Lovecraftian universe that didn't gloss over the uglier implications of his worldview.
Victor LaValle
#26. There are many of our so-called captains on industry who, if the truth were told, and a shorter and uglier word were not unpermissible, are little better than malefactors of great wealth.
James Branch Cabell
#27. A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
E.W. Howe
#28. Uglier things have been spotted in the skies, but not by reliable witnesses.
Douglas Adams
#29. SELF-MOCKERY IS AN UGLIER THING THAN ANY HUMAN FACE, IRIS ... YOU ARE SMART AND YOU ARE KIND. DON'T BETRAY THOSE IMPULSES IN YOURSELF. DON'T BELABOR THE LACK OF PHYSICAL BEAUTY, WHICH IN ANY CASE EVENTUALLY FLEES THOSE WHO HAVE IT AND MAKES THEM SAD.
Gregory Maguire
#30. I thought last week's game was ugly and this was even uglier.
Mike Tice
#31. The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day; so let us settle for the mirror image and do without an inspection of the original.
Karl Kraus
#32. The camel's hump is an ugly lump,
Which well you might see at the zoo.
But uglier yet is the hump we get,
For having to little to do.
Rudyard Kipling
#33. Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#35. They all thought that civilized Germans would not stand for anything really rough happening." Szilard held no such sanguine view, noting that the Germans themselves were paralyzed with cynicism, one of the uglier effects on morals of losing a major war.
Richard Rhodes
#36. There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black Country are ugly, famine would be uglier still.
Goldwin Smith
#37. I can see! So this is the sky! So this is blood! So this is the world! So this is what you look like, Komamura. You are uglier than I thought. -Kaname Tousen (I'm sorry to say but this quote had me laughing so much XD)
Tite Kubo
#38. Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.
George Savile
#39. The uglier, older, meaner, iller, poorer I get, the more I wish to take my revenge by doing brilliant color, well arranged, resplendent.
Vincent Van Gogh
#40. The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.
H.G.Wells
#41. There's nothing you could do that I haven't seen an army of uglier, hairier people do thousands of times before.
Thea Harrison
#42. 'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
Salman Rushdie
#43. Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.
Lillian Hellman
#44. Its a paper town, with paper houses and paper people, everything is uglier up close.
John Green
#45. When things go wrong, they can get ugly. But they don't have to be uglier than they already are, right?
Jeremiah Stevens
#46. We survey lush landscapes with variations not dissimilar to a so-called "imperfect" female body with absolute pleasure
say, an expanse of Irish countryside with grassy rolling hills. But is it really so much uglier when it's made of flesh instead of soil?
Kim Brittingham
#47. Ali kept calling me ugly, but I never thought of myself as being any uglier than him, I have 11 babies, somebody thought I was cute.
Joe Frazier
#48. If a product or enterprise doesn't constantly reinvent itself, it is superseded, cast aside, abandoned without sentiment in favor of something bigger, newer, and, alas, nearly always uglier.
Bill Bryson
#49. To hate others is ugly.
To hate yourself is uglier.
Hlovate
#50. We have an obligation to make things beautiful. Not to leave the world uglier than we found it, not to empty the oceans, not to leave our problems for the next generation.
Neil Gaiman
#51. Bickering. It's so much uglier than a heated, dish-smashing fight, isn't it?
Jessica Knoll
#52. He used to say the uglier things are the longer they live, and the ugliest things live forever.
Mal Peet
#53. I swallowed, hoping my voice still worked. "You're - you're even uglier than your son," I taunted the Titan. "I can see where Atlas gets his stupidity from.
Rick Riordan
#54. Otchky-potchky, itchky-pitch,
Pay attention to this witch.
A donkey takes you to a knight
Him you conquer in a fight.
Then you wed a princess who
Is even uglier than you.
Ha ha ha and cockadoodle,
The magic words are 'Apple Strudel
William Steig
#55. People laughed less and grumbled more, sang less and shouted more, and the sounds they made grew louder and uglier. It became difficult to hear even the birds or the breeze, and soon everyone stopped listening for them.
Norton Juster
#56. Allan sighed, lying down in the grass. "Fine. I'm too pretty for all this serious business."
"I can make you a little uglier, if you wish," David said.
Allan lifted his head. "So you agree -- I'm pretty." he said smiling.
A.C. Gaughen
#57. My swing is no uglier than Arnold Palmer's, and it's the same ugly swing every time.
Nancy Lopez
#58. If I hadn't gone into acting, I would have been one of those weird runaways on Hollywood Boulevard. No, it'd be uglier. I'd probably be dead.
Christina Ricci
#59. The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.
Hunter S. Thompson
#60. In Divorce American style, there was the discomfort of seeing one of the beautiful wasted actresses of the screen, Jean Simmons. Her suggestions of sensibility - what she embodies - were too fine for the world of that movie. Her presence made the movie she was trapped in seem uglier.
Jean Simmons
#61. If you ever go bar hopping, who do you want to take with you? You want a slightly uglier version of yourself. Similar ... but slightly uglier.
Dan Ariely
#62. The ugliest spectacle is that of artists selling themselves. Art as a commodity is an ugly idea ... The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
Ad Reinhardt
#63. Los Angeles is like San Diego's older, uglier sister that has herpes.
Justin Halpern
#64. Don't think you can watch all the romantic movies, soap operas, TV shows and read all the romantic books out there and not be affected. Ninety-nine percent of the romantic stuff out there is garbage ... and what you put in always comes out ... UGLIER!
Osayi Emokpae Lasisi
#65. Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.
Sigmund Freud
#66. There's this assumption that all children have the luxury of a childhood where their innocence is always respected and their main occupation is pleasant play - at the age of 18 or 21, they are then thrust into the real world and shown its uglier side, but not before.
Margo Lanagan
#67. Medicaid only allowed you three choices of
frames ... ugly, uglier, and fuckin rape prevention birth control!
Jeff Erno
#68. What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind - the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship.
George Eliot
#69. Nothing is uglier than the sinner, nothing so leprous or fetid; the scar of his crimes is still raw, and he stinks like the cave of Hell.
Prudentius
#70. The dwarf has risen from the dead, Tyrion thought. And look, he's uglier than ever, run tell your friends.
George R R Martin
#71. A landscape becomes uglier when an admirer disrupts it with the words 'how beautiful'.
Theodor W. Adorno
#72. I know, I pick up the roles other actresses don't want [laughs]. When there's movies where there are two sisters and one's the uglier sister, there's always no actress that wants to go for it. I'm like, why not! They're the best roles!
Rebel Wilson
#73. The horror genre gets you in touch with our primal instincts as a people more than any other genre I can think of. It gives you this chance to sort of reflect on who we are and look at the sort of uglier side that we don't always look at, and have fun with that very thing.
Drew Goddard
#74. I discovered what I call the Bill Gates effect. That is, the more successful you are, the uglier you get.
Scott Adams
#76. 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
#77. William Asquith Farnaby was nothing but a muddy filter, on the hither side of which human beings, nature, and even his beloved art had emerged bedimmed and bemired, less, other and uglier than themselves.
Aldous Huxley
#78. Your strengths might make you hard to approach, and might make your words sound uglier than what you actually mean, but they also make people look up to you.
Marie Lu
#79. There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and of action, and the resolute facing of the world as it is when the garment of make-believe by which pious hands have hidden its uglier features is stripped off.
Thomas Huxley
#80. As Schaeffer once wrote, there is nothing uglier than theological orthodoxy without understanding or compassion.
Nancy Pearcey
#81. Your danger is something other than death, and uglier. Because she will try to change you - to arouse something in you that should never be awakened.
Jack Williamson
#82. There was genuine affection. Mom knew all this. "Thank God Eloise is uglier than a cow living near Chernobyl," Mom liked to say. "Or I might wonder." Dad
Harlan Coben
#83. The butterfly lures us not only because he is beautiful, but because he is transitory. The caterpillar is uglier, but in him we can regard the better joy of becoming.
Cynthia Ozick
#84. Photographer shoots Sutton in close-up, the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway behind his head. The expressway was built while Sutton was in prison. God what a monstrosity, Sutton says. I didn't think they could make Brooklyn uglier. I underestimated them.
J.R. Moehringer
#85. The more peaceful you are, the more beautiful your face becomes; the more violent you are, the uglier your face becomes!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#86. What's your name?" was my first question. I couldn't keep calling him Squirty though my pants were proof of the moniker's accurateness.
"James Franco."
"Like the actor?" I couldn't help but ask.
His expression eased into a smile. "Yes, but poorer and uglier.
Jeaniene Frost
#87. We get on the bandwagon in all sorts of ways - you know minor ways and major ways - like what you've just encountered which isn't censorship exactly, it was something sort of uglier in a way.
Kathy Acker
#88. As ugly as the truth is, it's even uglier when someone says out loud what you've been thinking to yourself.
Jenny O'Connell
#89. If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.
Roald Dahl
#90. It's a weird city because the uglier the weather, the more beautiful the city. And the uglier the buildings, the more coherent the city.
Rem Koolhaas
#91. Spaces I love to do - the uglier the better - tend to be really old, dated basements - especially from the '60s to the '80s. I love those.
Candice Olson
#92. Tonight the Internet seemed filled with versions of me, like a fun house filled with mirrors. Some of them made me look prettier, and some of them made me look uglier, and some of them chopped me right in half, but none of them were right.
Leila Sales
#93. It seems that the uglier the stock, the better the return, even when the valuations are comparable.
Tobias E. Carlisle
#94. Everything's uglier close up -Margo Roth Spiegelman
John Green
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