unpleasant quotes

   How unpleasant to meet Mr Eliot! With his features of clerical cut, And his brow so grim And his mouth so prim.

-T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
  'Five-Finger Exercises'.

That's cynical. [Smiles.] Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

- Lillian Florence Hellman
  Ben. The Little Foxes, act1.

  Why shouldn't art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.

- Pierre Auguste Renoir
Quoted in Ian Chilvers and Harold Osborne (eds) The Oxford Dictionary of Art (1994).

'I grant you that he's not two-faced,' I said.'But what's the use of that when the one face he has got is so peculiarly unpleasant?'

- C(harles) P(ercy), 1st Baron Snow
  TheAffair, ch.4.