The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.[Le beau n’a qu’un type; le laid en a mille.]
We are ugly but we have the music.
Vice knows she’s ugly, so puts on her Mask.
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.[Der christliche Entschluss, die Welt hässlich und schlecht zu finden, hat die Welt hässlich und schlecht gemacht.]
Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child’s eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.
Love is a fire. It burns everyone. It disfigures everyone. It is the world’s excuse for being ugly.
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But on the other hand no one is more ready than I am to acknowledge that it is better to be good than to be ugly.
Good and evil and beauty and ugliness are only ornamental fruits of perspective, whose sole value lies in their linkage to what chance made our fathers think and feel, and whose finer details are different for every race and culture.
Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you then you know it’s for something else.
