Ugly Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old ugly quotes, ugly sayings, and ugly proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

He's so ugly that when a fly ball was hit towards him, it would curve away from him. Mickey Rivers
the beast was brought in the evening. It didn't make a good impression then, but in the morning, in the full light of day, it looked even worse. It was exorbitantly ugly, that cat. Joris-Karl Huysmans
Don't dare kiss an ugly girl— she'll tell the world about it. American Proverb
There never was a mirror that told a woman she was ugly. French Proverb
The great tragedy of science: the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. Thomas H. Huxley
Beauty is the first test; there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics. Godfrey H. Hardy
So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face. Yogi Berra
A good-looking wife is the world's; An ugly one, your own. Marathi (Indian) Proverb
If you are ugly, be winsome. Egyptian Proverb
It is the melancholy face that gets stung by the bee. Japanese Proverb
The thicker the veil, the less worth lifting. Turkish Proverb
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
I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful. Oscar Wilde
It is better to be first with an ugly woman than the hundredth with a beauty. Pearl S. Buck
It does not matter in the least having been born in a duck yard, if only you come out of a swan's egg! Hans Christian Anderson
Ugliness as a representative of evil can also be traced to European folktales, which often incorporate pagan, in addition to Christian, lore. Charlotte M. Wright
What I have learned overtime is that wearing the ugly dress is about more than the changes to my outer appearance. It is also about the pain, the fatigue, and the uncertainty of what is happening inside my body. Linda McNamara
Ugly was anything that did not conform to some standard. Ugly was to be made fun of; ugly was inferior. Karen Kemper
High priest, what of the night? - / The night is horrible here / With haggard faces and fear, / Blood, and the burning of fire. / Mine eyes are emptied of sight, / Mine hands are full of the dust, / If the God of my faith be a liar, / Who is it that I shall trust? Algernon Charles Swinburne
I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep. Ann Voskamp
I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get. Charles Bukowski
If you think something is ugly, look harder. Ugliness is just a failure of seeing. Matt Haig
I'm an ugly girl, / My face makes you hurl, / Sad I have it, / I should bag it. / Acne everywhere, / Unwanted facial hair. / I'm a relation to Frankenstein's creation. Al Yankovic
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. Oscar Wilde
The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand. Victor Hugo
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time. Jean Cocteau
Not being beautiful was the true blessing. Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome. Golda Meir
When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say: 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.' Anton Chekov
Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it’s for something else. Charles Bukowski