Old women's gold is not ugly. [ Proverb ]
That ugly treason of mistrust. [ William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice ]
A pretty pig makes an ugly old sow. [ Proverb ]
Nothing is irredeemably ugly but sin. [ Balzac ]
Better an ugly face than an ugly mind. [ James Ellis ]
Sweet are the uses of adversity:
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head. [ William Shakespeare ]
There are no fine prisons, nor ugly loves. [ Proverb ]
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 ]
Without a rich heart wealth is an ugly beggar. [ Emerson ]
So I'm ugly. I never saw anyone hit with his face. [ Yogi Berra ]
Ugly women, finely dressed, are the uglier for it. [ Proverb ]
No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly. [ Cervantes ]
Masked balls are a merciful institution for ugly people.
If all the world were ugly, deformity would be no monster. [ Proverb ]
There is no pot so ugly that a cover cannot be found for it. [ Proverb ]
A virtuous woman, though ugly, is the ornament of the house. [ Proverb ]
Better never have been handsome when young, than ugly when old. [ Proverb ]
May no good Christian ever see an ugly woman that affects niceness. [ Proverb ]
She is not so ugly as to fright one, nor so beautiful as to kill one. [ Proverb ]
An ugly woman in a rich habit set out with jewels nothing can become. [ Dryden ]
A coxcomb is ugly all over with the affectation of the fine gentleman. [ Dr. Johnson ]
Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well. [ Alexander Smith ]
A large head of hair adds beauty to a good face, and terror to an ugly one. [ Lycurgus ]
There are no ugly women; there are only women who do not know how to look pretty. [ Antoine Berryer ]
An ugly face and the want of exterior beauty generally increases the interior beauty. [ Chatfield ]
It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
The cripple, tardy-gaited night, who, like a foul and ugly witch, doth limp so tediously away. [ Shakespeare ]
A beloved face cannot grow ugly, because, not flesh and complexion, but expression, created love. [ Richter ]
To make love when one is young and fair is a venial sin: it is a mortal sin when one is old and ugly. [ De Bernis ]
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 ]
Very ugly or very beautiful women should be flattered on their understanding, and mediocre ones on their beauty. [ Chesterfield ]
Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it. [ Wycherley ]
A beautiful smile is to the female countenance what the sunbeam is to the landscape; it embellishes an inferior face and redeems an ugly one. [ Lavater ]
Style is the physiognomy of the mind. It is more infallible than that of the body. To imitate the style of another is said to be wearing a mask. However beautiful it may be, it is through its lifelessness insipid and intolerable, so that even the most ugly living face is more engaging. [ Schopenhauer ]
Great art dwells in all that is beautiful; but false art omits or changes all that is ugly. Great art accepts Nature as she is, but directs the eyes and thoughts to what is most perfect in her; false art saves itself the trouble of direction by removing or altering whatever is objectionable. [ John Ruskin ]