Top 485 Ugly Quotes

I’m noticing a lot of the big bloggers who’ve posted about politics are experiencing an ugly backlash. Readers are angry because they went to the bloggers’ sites for a laugh, not a lecture. Again, it’s a question of being appropriate for the audience.

The costume world – whether it be movies, television or drag – and the fashion world have this weird, ugly stepsister, love/hate relationship. I’m somewhere stuck in the middle of it, and it’s so much fun.

We do not stand for racism on the pitch, in society or anywhere else it rears its ugly head.

The great tragedy of science – the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

Florida is a strange place: hot, beautiful, ugly. I love it here, and how nothing makes sense but still, somehow, there is a rhythm.

I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as ‘sweeping,’ ‘tender’ or ‘universal.’

There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight.

Tammy Faye said, I am so happy that Jessica Hahn is so ugly, because now I don’t feel so bad.

With proper acting, I don’t know what I would play – I got sent a script for a play, and it said in the notes that my proposed character was ‘hideously fat and ugly’. That made my day. I mean, I do know I am no oil painting.

Let’s face it: there aren’t a lot of black superheroes. So, in dealing with a black superhero, you’re going to deal with ugly history and the beauty of history.

I was a luxury player. Having been pampered at Tottenham for so long, I went into League One and had to graft and learn the ugly side of the game. I grew as a player.

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.

I tell the truth and they call me a fascist, a racist, an ugly, dirty, nasty, xenophobic populist.

Rich people don’t like to be in the military. The shoes are ugly and the uniforms itch. Rich people don’t go in much for revolution or terrorism, either.

The ugly truth is it’s the spineless parents who parade their undisciplined children around like royalty that make people dislike kids.

I don’t think I’m ugly per se, but on bad days, I have been told that I look like the monster from ‘The Hills Have Eyes.’ That was extremely confidence-shattering, so I try to take care of myself.

There’s so many parts of my life that I’ve struggled with – that so many millions of others struggled with – about being an outsider, about feeling ugly, about having to overcome looking different to other people.

America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious.

To be honest, I probably wouldn’t have gone to Hollywood if I hadn’t been offered ‘Ugly Betty’ because I was a wee bit feart. But you have to make yourself frightened. That’s what keeps you alive.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 brought an end to the ugly Jim Crow period in American history.

Liberals want to live downtown. All over America – in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Georgetown – there are crowds of liberals living in the gritty, ugly, dirty neighborhoods sensible people are trying to flee.

You know the things I went through as a youngster, coming into the business, all the good, the bad and the ugly that came. I’d had a rough life. I grew up single parent. My mom, she was like a father to me.

Political correctness never rears its ugly head independently. It always shows up as a series of actions designed, to this observer, to crush the souls of those blessed with common sense.

The ugly is very appealing to man. It’s instinct. One shrinks from the ugly, yet wants to look at it. There’s a devilish fascination in it. We extract pleasure from horror.

Cancer taught me to stop saving things for a special occasion. Every day is special. You don’t have to get cancer to start living life to the fullest. My post-cancer philosophy? No wasted time. No ugly clothes. No boring movies.

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.

‘Fecundity’ is an ugly word for an ugly subject. It is ugly, at least, in the eggy animal world. I don’t think it is for plants.

Although I am small, ugly and dirty, I am highly ambitious, and at the slightest flattery, I immediately start to strut like a turkey.

It’s easy to imagine ways the future can be ugly and depressing. It’s harder, but more worthwhile, to imagine plausible ways we can make it better.

I don’t mind if we play ugly and win, as long as we win.

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.

I really don’t have a problem showing the ugly side of people. If that means my wearing no makeup, that’s fine. To me, that’s beautiful.

When they get a 50-inch waist and a gorilla butt, it’s ugly looking – and I think bodybuilding has become ugly looking.

I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly.

In the 1980s, there was no category to stick me in. ‘He sounds too smart’ is what I was hearing. I realized that I had to become a member of the school of what I call ‘ugly acting.’ Which meant I wanted to do what Dustin Hoffman did very successfully: to play character roles, but lead character roles.

I grew up having to do manual labor because people always told me that I was an ugly girl. I’ve never had the permission to be myself except for when I’m doing manual labor. Because in manual labor, it’s about, ‘Can you pick this up, can you move this here,’ and I could.

To err is human, but to persist in the mistake is ugly.

People find beauty in the desert. I don’t know where they’re looking because I haven’t found it. It’s ugly. It’s nasty. It’s dirt. It’s desert. It’s sand. It’s rock. It’s cactus. It’s lizards and snakes.

I’ve seen the good, the bad, and the ugly. Lived it and I’m still here to talk about it and help someone else if I can.

What an ugly beast the ape, and how like us.

I like all my children, even the squat and ugly ones.

The biggest mistakes I made in my career were when I said, ‘If I do this movie, I’ll be able to do a couple more movies.’ Those are the times I really got ugly.

I find very often that very ugly women have really handsome men and vice versa because they don’t have any competition. Sometimes handsome men have avoided me.

You see, there weren’t these magazines like ‘Heat’ in my day. Always waiting to trip up these pretty girls and make them seem something horrible, something to make them look stupid and small and ugly and disgusting.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

The combat environment has the effect of flattening out civilian identities. If you’re young or old, or a graduate from Harvard or the son of a farmer from Alabama, or if you’re gay or straight or good-looking or ugly: none of those things matters much in combat, as long as you can conform to the group expectations.

I know that if I were to take ugly photographs, no one would be interested in looking at them.

I have grown up on a staple diet of love stories. But, soon I realised it is not so rosy or divine. It is painful, selfish and ugly. Love is the biggest curse of this generation!

I’ll take an ugly win over a pretty loss any day.

I can tell you that the book ‘The Ugly Truth’ is about puberty and all the awfulness that comes with that time in a person’s life. It was definitely some different subject matter to be writing about, especially knowing some of my audience are second and third graders.

It never got ugly, although it got a bit strange at times.

I’m a player that has sat, literally, on every side of the good, of the bad, of the ugly.

Here we are in the 70’s when everything really is horrible and it really stinks. The mass media, everything on television everything everywhere is just rotten. You know it’s just really boring and really evil, ugly and worse.

I’ve never blown an ugly bubble. Never. They’re all beautiful. They’re like jewels, transient jewels.

I once owned a really, really ugly pair of white leather boots. They were so bad. It was back in the ’80s! It was just a really tacky fashion choice when I was in middle school, and I thought it was cool. I’m really embarrassed.

Acting was not for me. They were saying, you are too beautiful, you are too ugly, you are too plump, too tall, too short. You cannot believe the way you are judged.

I am ugly, but what I do have is charm.

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.