#ugly

I find very often that very ugly women have really handsome men and vice versa because they don't have any competition. Sometimes handsome men have avoided me. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#avoided #because #competition #find #handsome

My mother always called me an ugly weed, so I never was aware of anything until I was older. Plain girls should have someone telling them they are beautiful. Sometimes this works miracles. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#always #anything #aware #beautiful #called

I prefer to believe the opposite - that there is always an indestructible beauty at the heart of darkness. ↗

— Mary Balogh

#ugly #beauty

I was a big shiny, glittery-type person. Now I'm a jeans and T-shirt girl, or I'll wear sun dresses and cowboy boots in the summer. But at first I had to have stylists tell me, 'That's ugly.' ↗

— Miranda Lambert

#boots #cowboy #dresses #first #girl

The earth is rocky and full of roots; it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you'll never see it again - it's death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#black #bulbs #clay #cover #death

The ugly is very appealing to man. It's instinct. One shrinks from the ugly, yet wants to look at it. There's a devilish fascination in it. We extract pleasure from horror. ↗

— Sonya Levien

#devilish #extract #fascination #horror #instinct

The nativism behind the push to repeal or amend the Fourteenth is ugly and obvious. ↗

— Eric Liu

#behind #fourteenth #obvious #push #repeal

The world's as ugly as sin, and almost as delightful. ↗

— Frederick Locker-Lampson

#delightful #sin #ugly #world

My swing is no uglier than Arnold Palmer's, and it's the same ugly swing every time. ↗

— Nancy Lopez

#every #every time #palmer #same #swing

When a society abandons its ideals just because most people can't live up to them, behavior gets very ugly indeed. ↗