Ugliness

(275 votes)   Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy in its presence. The effect of the ugly can be measured with a dynamometer. Whenever man feels in any way depressed, he senses the proximity of something ''ugly.'' His feeling of power, his will to power, his courage, his pride -- they decline with the ugly, they increase with the beautiful.

Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900, German Philosopher

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(161 votes)   It's nothing to be born ugly. Sensibly, the ugly woman comes to terms with her ugliness and exploits it as a grace of nature. To become ugly means the beginning of a calamity, self-willed most of the time.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
1873-1954, French Author

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(149 votes)   The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(145 votes)   The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(130 votes)   There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.

H.G. Wells
1866-1946, British-born American Author

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