Love hides ugliness. [ Gaelic Proverb ]
Ugliness without tact is horrible. [ Hawthorne ]
Some men's ugliness is hard to beat. [ G. D. Prentice ]
Nothing is irredeemably ugly but sin. [ Balzac ]
Absolute and entire ugliness is rare. [ Ruskin ]
Vice in its own pure native ugliness. [ Crabbe ]
Better an ugly face than an ugly mind. [ James Ellis ]
Oh! I have pass'd a miserable night.
So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams.
That, as I am a Christian faithful man,
I would not spend another such a night
Though 'twere to buy a world of happy days. [ William Shakespeare ]
Few persons comprehend the power of ugliness. [ Mirabeau ]
Wrinkles and ill-nature together made a woman hideous. [ Chamfort ]
Ugliness is a letter of credit for some special purposes. [ Chesterfield ]
Ugliness, after virtue, is the best guardian of a young woman. [ Mme. de Genlis ]
Proper deformity seems not in the fiend so horrid as in woman. [ William Shakespeare ]
An ugly woman in a rich habit set out with jewels nothing can become. [ Dryden ]
Happiness does away with ugliness, and even makes the beauty of beauty. [ Amiel ]
Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty, but kind to ugliness. [ Ouida ]
There are no ugly women; there are only women who do not know how to look pretty. [ Antoine Berryer ]
The ugliest man was he who came to Troy; with squinting eyes and one distorted foot. [ Homer ]
An ugly face and the want of exterior beauty generally increases the interior beauty. [ Chatfield ]
In nature there's no blemish but the mind; none can be called deformed but the unkind. [ William Shakespeare ]
Beauty and ugliness disappear equally under the wrinkles of age: one is lost in them, the other hidden. [ J. Petit-Senn ]
I do not know that she was virtuous; but she was always ugly, and with a woman, that is half the battle. [ Heinrich Heine ]
There is a sort of charm in ugliness, if the person has some redeeming qualities and is only ugly enough. [ H. W. Shaw ]
Nothing keeps me in such awe as perfect beauty; now, there is something consoling and encouraging in ugliness. [ Sheridan ]
Both beauty and ugliness are equally to be dreaded; the one as a dangerous gift, the other as a melancholy affliction. [ Eliza Cook ]
Loveliness does more than destroy ugliness; it destroys matter. A mere touch of it in a room, in a street, even on a door-knocker, is a spiritual force. [ Prof. Drummond ]
These men (chronic fault-finders) should consider that it is their envy which deforms everything, and that the ugliness is not in the object, but in the eye. [ Steele ]