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- Nov 07, 2020
Ugly Quotes
Honest lines about the things nobody calls pretty.
Several of these quotes use 'ugly' with a wink, like the familiar complaint about an unflattering bridesmaid dress, while others turn more serious, criticizing a culture that consumes far too much. A few quotes also touch on real geopolitical tensions.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
While I was writing 'The Spare Room,' I thought, 'I'm going to look really bad in this book - there's no redeeming this kind of awful, ugly emotion', and I thought, 'I'm not going to change it. I'll call the character 'Helen' and admit to those feelings.' I think this is a reason why people write.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not know if she was virtuous, but she was ugly, and with a woman that is half the battle.
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is ugly about life is that it so often only provides uneasy half solutions that are so seldom pure and tragic ones.
- Friendship
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- Nov 07, 2020
I define friendship as a bond that transcends all barriers. When you are ready to expect anything and everything from friends, good, bad or ugly... that's what I call true friendship.
- Engineering
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black Country are ugly, famine would be uglier still.
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- Nov 07, 2020
America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never thought I was pretty enough. I was kind of tall and lanky. I don't mind it now, but back in the day I hated it. I would tell myself that what I think is ugly at 17 is actually what's going to be pretty about me later.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
People can say whatever they want about me. They can call me ugly. But don't talk about my child.
- Nov 07, 2020
You don't normally see incredibly ugly people who've gone missing and it becomes a sensation.
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- Nov 07, 2020