152 Quotes About Ugliness

His mother was ugly and his father was ugly, but Shrek was uglier than the two of them put together. By the time he toddled, Shrek could spit flame a full ninety-nine yards and vent smoke from either ear.

Ook, though very clever, was the worst fighter in the tribe. That is how he ended up with Grot-Grot as his woman. Grot-Grot had a bald patch on the top of her head, she was missing an eye and she smelled like a dead skunk. She did have a good sense of humour though.

…there is a connection between the way in which the suburbs are made and the ugliness of the social life they provoke.

The wisdom and folly in mind, the beauty, and the ugliness in eyes live. It depends on that, what one empowers, and imposes on itself.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, which is a pity because this week the National Association of Beholders wrote to tell me that I've got a face like a rucksack full of dented bells.

The ugliness is what makes the beautiful things beautiful.

He wasn't ugly, but if he picked a flower, I was fairly certain it would die in his hand.

315Beauty is, in some way, boring. Even if its concept changes through the ages… a beautiful object must always follow certain rules. A beautiful nose shouldn’t be longer than that or shorter than that, on the contrary, an ugly nose can be as long as the one of Pinocchio, or as big as the trunk of an elephant, or like the beak of an eagle, and so ugliness is unpredictable, and offers an infinite range of possibility. Beauty is finite, ugliness is infinite like God.

Just because the world often seemed to reward ugliness was no excuse to give up on beauty.