#ugliness

However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secretion alters his features, animates his gestures, and colors his voice. The stupidest man will often, under the stress of passion, achieve heights of eloquence, in thought if not in language, and seem to move in some luminous sphere. Goriot's voice and gesture had at this moment the power of communication that characterizes the great actor. Are not our finer feelings the poems of the human will? ↗

— Honoré de Balzac

#description #emotion #observation #passion #people

Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#face #humor #mirror #ugliness #humor

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness. ↗

— Ouida

#cruel #familiarity #kind #magician #ugliness

It doesn't matter if you're born in a duck yard, so long as you are hatched from a swan's egg! ↗

— Hans Christian Andersen

#beauty #dreams #ducks #empowerment #fairy-tales

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant. ↗

— Douglas Horton

#constant #ugliness #variable

To be beautiful, handsome, means that you possess a power which makes all smile upon and welcome you; that everybody is impressed in your favor and inclined to be of your opinion; that you have only to pass through a street or to show yourself at a balcony to make friends and to win mistresses from among those who look upon you. What a splendid, what a magnificent gift is that which spares you the need to be amiable in order to be loved, which relieves you of the need of being clever and ready to serve, which you must be if ugly, and enables you to dispense with the innumerable moral qualities which you must possess in order to make up for the lack of personal beauty. ↗

— Théophile Gautier

#ugliness #beauty

I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it. ↗

— Salvador Dali

#grew #i #immediately #knee #seated

I have no right to beauty. I had been condemned to masculine ugliness. ↗

— Renee Vivien

#been #condemned #had #i #masculine

Why do we go around acting as though everything was friendship and reliability when basically everything everywhere is full of sudden hate and ugliness? ↗

— Anna Freud

#around #basically #everything #everywhere #friendship

Because the child must have a valuable thing which is called imagination. The child must have a secret world in which live things that never were. It is necessary that she believe. She must start out believing in things not of this world. Then when the world becomes too ugly for living in, the child can reach back and live in her imagination. ↗

— Betty Smith

#imagination #ugliness #imagination