#ugly

The British seizure of Hongkong was an aspect of one of the most ugly crimes of the British Empire: the takeover and destruction of India, and the use of India to flood China with opium. ↗

— Robert Trout

#british #british empire #china #crimes #destruction

L.A. makes you feel ugly. ↗

— Rachel Weisz

#makes #ugly #you

The Long and the Short and the Tall made a great impression on me because it was a very ugly tale about the reality of soldiering at a time when we were being gung-ho about the whole thing of war. ↗

— Timothy West

#because #being #great #impression #long

People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#far #just #looked #much #never

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#certain #conditions #look #object #ugly

A bore or an uggo might manage not to get up anyone's nose, but if a girl's got brains and looks and personality, she's going to piss someone off, somewhere along the way. ↗

— Tana French

#confidence #intelligence #ugly #beauty

I got sick and tired of my lady wearing ugly underwear to bed, so I turned to the Internet. ↗

— John Wilson

#got #i #internet #lady #sick

I think it's a little irresponsible for women who choose surgery to then say they can portray the average woman on the street, because if the average woman can't afford those treatments, then she's going to say, 'I'm 53 and I don't look like that,' and start thinking she's ugly or inadequate. ↗

— Debra Winger

#average #average woman #because #choose #going

Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it. ↗

— William Wycherley

#beauty #handsome #i #i think #more

You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream. ↗

— Frank Zappa

#chord #cream #enough #filled #giraffe