Plotinus
Philosopher
"We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order."
Ugliness quotes
Ugliness
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Coco Chanel
Fashion Designer
"One can get used to ugliness, but never to negligence."
John Ruskin
Art Critic, Writer
"Absolute and entire ugliness is rare."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Novelist
"Ugliness without tact is horrible."
Honore de Balzac
Novelist
"Nothing is irredeemably ugly but sin."
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"You have never seen ugliness in a happy face."
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"There is an ugliness in being paid for work one does not like."
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"The wrong of unshapely things is a wrong too great to be told; I hunger to build them anew and sit on a green knoll apart."
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"Nobody ever discovered ugliness through photographs. But many, through photographs, have discovered beauty."
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"Industry is the root of all ugliness."
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