#unattractive

Her eyes, always sad, now looked into the mirror with particular hopelessness. "She's flattering me," thought the princess, and she turned away and went on reading. Julie, however, was not flattering her friend: indeed, the princess's eyes, large, deep, and luminous (sometimes it was as if rays of light came from them in sheaves), were so beautiful that very often, despite the unattractiveness of the whole face, those eyes were more attractive than beauty. But the princess had never seen the good expression of thise eyes, the expression they had in moments when she was not thinking of herself. As with all people, the moment she looked in the mirror, her face assumed a strained, unnatural, bad expression. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#ugliness #unattractiveness #beauty

I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive. ↗

— Patty Duke

#monitor #people #self-pity #tell #their

Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream. ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

#allow #easier #established #feminism #mainstream

I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#beautiful #became #before #complex #driven

I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#beautiful #complex #driven #generous #i

Unattractive people are more obsessed with looks. ↗

— Rae Dawn Chong

#looks #more #obsessed #people #unattractive

Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast. ↗

— Graham Greene

#beautiful #clever #pitiless #successful #then

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue. ↗

— Edward Dahlberg

#nothing #our #times #unattractive #virtue