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  • He'll be all right when he's married, as Mama says; and reformed rakes make the best husbands, everybody knows. I only wish he were not so uglythat's all I think aboutbut then there's no choice here in the country.

    - Anne Bronte« 
      Agnes Grey, ch.13.

  • I grant an ugly woman is a blot on the fair face of creation; but as to the gentleman, let them be solicitous to possess only strength and valour: let their motto be:Hunt, shoot, and fight: the rest is not worth a flip.

    - Charlotte Bronte« 
      Jane Eyre ch.17.

  • All Middlesex is ugly, notwithstanding the millions upon millionswhichit iscontinuallysucking up fromtherestof the kingdom.

    -William Cobbett
      Rural Rides (published1830), entry for 25 Sep.

  • Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

    -Jean Cocteau
      In the NewYork World-Telegram and Sun, 21  Aug.

  • There isnothing ugly; I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it maylight, shade and perspective will always make it beautiful.

    -John Constable
    Quoted in C R Leslie Memoirs of theLife of John Constable (1843).

  • Errors look so very ugly in persons of small meansone feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortunemay naturally indulgeina few delinquencies.

    - George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans Eliot
      Scenes of Clerical Life, ch.25.

  • Beauty isthe first test: there isno permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

    - Godfrey Harold Hardy
    A Mathematician's  Apology.

  • Me'  re Ubu, tu es bien laide aujourd'hui. Est-ce parce que nous avons du monde? Mother Ubu, you are very ugly today. Is it because we have company?

    - Alfred Jarry
      Ubu Roi, act1, sc.1.

  • A tourist is an ugly human being.

    -Jamaica originally Elaine Potter Richardson Kincaid
      A Small Place.

  •    It is better to be beautiful than to be good.But†it is better to be good than to be ugly.

    - Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills Wilde
    The Picture of Dorian Gray, ch.17.

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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