Ugly Quotes

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

The truth is ugly: we have art so as not to perish from the truth.

Beautiful speech doesn't need protection, it's ugly speech that needs protection. We have these cultural norms that allow people to say really ugly things. You don't have to invite them to your dinner party, but you should let them say it.

Today in America, unions have a secure place in our industrial life. Only a handful of reactionaries harbor the ugly thought of breaking unions and depriving working men and women of the right to join the union of their choice. I have no use for those - regardless of their political party - who hold some vain and foolish dream of spinning the clock back to days when organized labor was huddled, almost as a hapless mass. Only a fool would try to deprive working men and women of the right to join the union of their choice.

Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

I must confess to some sentiment about old Ireland, in spite of the ugly mask she tries to wear.

When reality looks too ugly, fantasize.

I met Courtney Love and she said she'd like to sleep with me, but she couldn't cos of my "pop-star thing"... so I said to her I couldn't sleep with her either - cos of her 'ugly thing'.

I'm stupid, I'm ugly, I'm dumb, I smell. Did I mention I'm stupid?

I've always thought comparisons were useless and ugly. It is a short cut to thinking.

I have an ugly day every month; pimples on my face, I'm fat and in a bad mood. It's more like an ugly week!

It's sort of like my past is an unfinished painting, and as the artist of that painting, I must fill in all the ugly holes and make it beautiful again.

In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.

The beauty of a cuckoo is in its notes, that of a woman in her unalloyed devotion to her husband, that of an ugly person in his scholarship, and that of an ascetic in his forgiveness.