ugliness quotes

On se fait une ide  e pre  cise de l'ordre, mais non pas du de s ordre. La beaute  , la vertu, le bonheur, ont des proportions; la laideur, le vice, et le malheur, n'en ont point. We can form a precise idea of order, but not of disorder. Beauty, virtue, happiness, all have their proportions; ugliness, vice and unhappiness have none.

-Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
  Paul et Virginie.

But the essential advantage for a poet†is to be able to see beneath both beauty and ugliness; to see the boredom, and the horror, and the glory.

-T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
  The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism.

Le beau n'a qu'un type; le laid en a mille. Beauty has only one form; ugliness has a thousand.

-Victor Marie Hugo
  Cromwell, pre  face.

In all directions stretched the Great Australian Emptiness, in which the mind is the least of possessions†and the march of material ugliness does not raise a quiver from the average nerves. It was the exaltation of the'average'that made me panic most.

- Patrick Victor Martindale White
  Essay on his literary career, in Australian Letters,'The Prodigal Son', vol.1, no.3, Apr.