Ugly

Have a look in the mirror. This is a collection of proverbs and quotes about ugly.

Ugly bird
In his mother’s eye, not ugly at all.


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Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
Dorothy Parker

But the eyes that he liked the least were horrible pale bulbous sort of eyes. "Insect eyes," he thought, "not animal eyes, only they are much too big."
J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 8 - Flies and Spiders
Bilbo seeing eyes in the forest

Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves.
Drew Barrymore

I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven.
Barbra Streisand

Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?
Charles Dickens
Said by Estella in 'Great Expectations'.

Oh, grandmother, what a horribly big mouth you have!
(unknown author)
Source: Little Red Riding Hood

The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.
Oscar Wilde

The ugly vulture eats the dead
Guiltless of murder's taint.
The heron swallows living fish
And looks like an ascetic saint.

There were insects, too, hideous crawling things, with eyes that stared upon him, and filled the very air around, glistening horribly amidst the thick darkness of the place.
Charles Dickens
Source: The Pickwick Papers

Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions.
Fernando Pessoa




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