Loretta Young
Actress
"There are no ugly ducklings."
Ugly Duckling quotes
Ugly Duckling
26 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Eva Green
Actress
"In Los Angeles, I feel like the ugly duckling, like I'm from Venus or something."
Muhammad Ali
Boxer, Activist
"Santa Claus was white and everything bad was black. The little ugly duckling was the black duck, and the black cat was the bad luck. And if I threaten you, I'm going to blackmail you.I said, 'Momma, why don't they call it 'whitemail'? They lie too.'"
Audrey Hepburn
Actress, Humanitarian
"I am not beautiful. My mother once called me an ugly duckling. But,listed separately, I have a few good features."
Haruki Murakami
Writer
"I have no idea! I have been writing for 35 years and from the beginning up to now the situation's almost the same. I'm kind of an ugly duckling. Always the duckling, never the swan."
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"And while we're on the subject of ducks, which we plainly are, the story, 'The Ugly Duckling' ought be banned as the central character wasn't a duckling or he wouldn't have grown up into a swan. He was a cygnet."
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