Ugliness Proverbs
Sayings about Ugliness
If there is character, ugliness becomes beauty; if there is none, beauty becomes ugliness. ~ Nigerian Proverbs
Nobody's sweetheart is ugly. ~ Dutch Proverbs
Never kiss an ugly girl; she will tell everyone. ~ Jewish Proverbs
A lovely girl attracts attention by her good looks, an ugly girl by the help of a mirror. ~ Maltese Proverbs
A gilt-edged visiting card often hides an ugly face. ~ Japanese Proverbs
Gloves hide the ugliest hands. ~ Romanian Proverbs
No mirror ever reflected an ugly woman. ~ Spanish Proverbs
Better to kiss an ugly woman than to lick yourself. ~ Burundi Proverbs
A beautiful woman belongs to everyone; an ugly one is yours alone. ~ Indian Proverbs
One night with an ugly woman and one day in the mountains both are like an eternity. ~ Turkish Proverbs
An ungrateful son is a wart on his father's nose -- he leaves it, it's ugly, he removes it, it hurts. ~ Iranian Proverbs
A monkey never thinks her baby's ugly. ~ Haitian Proverbs
Better an ugly duckling from your own village than a beauty from foreign parts. ~ Romanian Proverb
The ugliest tomcat always has the most beautiful mate. ~ French Proverbs
Ugliness with a good character is better than beauty. ~ Nigerian Proverb
The ugliest life is better than the nicest death. ~ Yiddish Proverbs
Having need of makes the ugly beautiful. ~ Portuguese Proverbs
The looking glass is the enemy of ugly women. ~ Romanian Proverb
Who loves ugliness will not encounter beauty. ~ German Proverbs
Breasts adorn a woman and make a man look ugly. ~ Hebrew Proverb
There are no beautiful prisons or ugly loved ones. ~ French Proverb
Poverty and ugliness are difficult to hide. ~ Chinese Proverbs
Her father's fortune will make the ugliest girl attractive. ~ Spanish Proverb
Wealth can give legs to the cripple, beauty to the ugly, and sympathy to tears. ~ Armenian Proverbs
The world is nonsense: what looks beautiful in the morning looks ugly in the evening. ~ Maltese Proverbs
If you are ugly, be winsome. ~ Tunisian Proverbs
She who loves an ugly man thinks him handsome. ~ Spanish Proverb
Ugliness is the only guardian angel a woman has. ~ Yiddish Proverb
Even ugly faces are worth looking at -- and that is a great comfort for most people. ~ Chinese Proverb
Distant hills look beautiful; near ones are ugly. ~ Goan Proverb
Quotations about Ugliness
Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts. ~ Serge Gainsbourg
Few persons comprehend the power of ugliness. ~ Marquis de Mirabeau
The ugliest man was he who came to Troy; with squinting eyes and one distorted foot. ~ Homer
Nothing keeps me in such awe as perfect beauty; now, there is something consoling and encouraging in ugliness. ~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Both beauty and ugliness are equally to be dreaded; the one as a dangerous gift, the other as a melancholy affliction. ~ Eliza Cook
Oh, I have passed a miserable night, so full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams! ~ William Shakespeare
Lord Chesterfield designated ugly women as the third sex; how shall we place ugly men. ~ Anna C. Mowatt
I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly. ~ Winston Churchill
Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose. ~ Robin Williams
Some men's ugliness is hard to beat. ~ George Denison Prentice
Better an ugly face than an ugly mind. ~ James Ellis
Proper deformity seems not in the fiend so horrid as in woman. ~ William Shakespeare
Absolute and entire ugliness is rare. ~ John Ruskin
Ugliness, after virtue, is the best guardian of a young woman. ~ Comtesse de Genlis
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
I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle. ~ Heinrich Heine
To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature. ~ Auguste Rodin
Ugliness is the measure of imperfection. ~ H.G. Wells
Ugliness is a letter of credit for some special purposes. ~ Philip Dormer Stanhope
Ugliness without tact is horrible. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it. ~ Salvador Dali
I try to show ugliness, but with compassion for the people who commit ugly acts. ~ Rachel Kushner
Though ugliness be the opposite of beauty, it is not the opposite to proportion and fitness; for it is possible that a thing may be very ugly with any proportions, and with a perfect fitness for any use. ~ Edmund Burke
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
People are reminded that it's not all ugliness in the world. ~ Thomas Kincade
So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face. ~ Yogi Berra
He had a big head and a face so ugly it became almost fascinating. ~ Ayn Rand
There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough. ~ Henry Wheeler Shaw
Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty. ~ Dodie Smith
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly. ~ Oscar Wilde
There are no ugly women; there are only women who do not know how to look pretty. ~ Antoine Berryer
Nothing is irredeemably ugly but sin. ~ Honore de Balzac
I do not know that she was virtuous; but she was always ugly, and with a woman, that is half the battle. ~ Heinrich Heine
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
Absolute ugliness is admitted as rarely as perfect beauty; but degrees of it more or less distinct are associated with whatever has the nature of death and sin, just as beauty is associated with what has the nature of virtue and of life. ~ John Ruskin
Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant. ~ Douglas Horton
An ugly face and the want of exterior beauty generally increases the interior beauty. ~ Paul Chatfield
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