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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

Oscar Wilde

Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.

Plotinus

Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent.

Sharon Tate

Let me look at the foulness and ugliness of my body. Let me see myself as an ulcerous sore running with every horrible and disgusting poison.

Saint Ignatius Of Loyola

I love it when ugliness is beautiful. I love character flaws.

Marcia Gay Harden

Once you can laugh at your own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If you're good, you can fill up those openings with something positive. Maybe... combat some of the ugliness in the world.

Goldie Hawn

Stanley didn't shy away from true humanity or from the ugliness that all people are capable of.

Matthew Modine

I am young. I didn't know that. But I don't recognize myself. That's my problem with the mirror. I see only the ugliness.

Dario Argento

The looting was part of the ugliness of Katrina and Rita.

Skip Mcdonald

Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.

Daniel Goleman

I was amazed and upset by the looks I got just walking around the studio... It illuminates the ugliness and the beauty that exists within each of us, and that's what this story represents to me.

Gerard Butler

Envy is impotent, numbed with fear, never ceasing in its appetite, and it knows no gratification, but endless self-torment. It has the ugliness of a trapped rat, which gnaws its own foot in an effort to escape.

Angus Wilson

For a while after the ugliness of the OJ Trial I liked doing him. That became fun to do because instead of OJ being smart and disappearing he wouldn't leave. So he put himself up to be ridiculed.

Tim Meadows

In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

Ouida

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

Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.

Dodie Smith

UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.

Ambrose Bierce

It allows officers to see that they do matter and are not just doing a job. Too much of this job is ugliness. As a police officer, you get the feeling ?Why am I doing this?? Well, when you get to spend time with a child and see how much they do look up to you, it?s a great feeling and reminds you that we, as police officers, have the honor of having the best job in the world.

Ernie Morris