Uglier Than Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Savages and modern artists are alike strangely driven to create something uglier than themselves. but the artists find it harder.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#3. A forced smile is uglier than a frown.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#4. 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

#5. When things go wrong, they can get ugly. But they don't have to be uglier than they already are, right?

Jeremiah Stevens

#6. 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

#7. God! Is there anything uglier than a frightened man!

Jean Anouilh

#8. 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

#9. I doubt if there is anything in the world uglier than a Midwestern city.

Frank Lloyd Wright

#10. [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

#11. 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

#12. Uglier than death backin' outta the outhouse readin' mad magazine and crazy as a football bat.

Alan Moore

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. The dwarf has risen from the dead, Tyrion thought. And look, he's uglier than ever, run tell your friends.

George R R Martin

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. My swing is no uglier than Arnold Palmer's, and it's the same ugly swing every time.

Nancy Lopez

#19. 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

#20. Bickering. It's so much uglier than a heated, dish-smashing fight, isn't it?

Jessica Knoll

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. As Schaeffer once wrote, there is nothing uglier than theological orthodoxy without understanding or compassion.

Nancy Pearcey

#24. 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

#25. 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

#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. 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

#29. Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.

George Savile

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. If making things seem prettier than they are is a lie, then making them seem uglier must be another.

Richard Russo

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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