I tried to make myself as pretty as possible and even then I thought I was ugly. I found it madly difficult to go out, to show myself.
Politics is so personal, vicious and immediate, how are you going to get anything done? Even the local politics where I live have gotten so ugly.
People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.
My number one style requirement is to have fun getting dressed. Nothing is too old, expensive, cheap, cute or ugly for me.
It's my choice to be beautiful. It's my choice to be ugly. And it's my choice to decided what those words actually mean.
People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much.
We see women who go out and want to look like Jennifer Aniston, and they're wearing an ill-fitting red dress and ugly gold shoes, and they've got flat hair and they can't walk.
Now this is a most satisfactory and important thing to think about, for brutality will not,—cannot,—accomplish what a kindly disposition will; and, if folks could only know how quickly a “balky” child will, through loving and cuddling, grow i...
You should have told her differently,' said Hermione, still with that maddeningly patient air. 'You should have said it was really annoying, but I'd made you promise to come along to the Three Broomsticks, and you really didn't want to go, you'd much...
Great people will always be mocked by those who feel smaller than them. Yet a lion does not flinch at laughter coming from a hyena. A gorilla does not budge from a banana thrown at it by a monkey. A nightingale does not stop singing its beautiful son...
La Santona: [Addressing a young man seated before her, apparently seeking advice on his love life] You must plant your seeds in another field. Do you understand what I mean? Young man seeking advice: No, I don't understand. La Santona: It's simple, m...
My parents would not permit ugly language in the house, which was okay with me. I didn't want to learn German anyway.
The political instinct might wear different clothes in different nations, but underneath the pomp and ceremony it's the same ugliness.
Usually redemption implies rescue - being saved. What were you being saved from?' he inquired, his voice carefully neutral. 'Ugliness.
Comment sections on the internet are like gang graffiti, abusive words sprayed like gibberish and it's ugly to look at.
Comment sections on the internet is like gang graffiti, abusive words sprayed like nonsense and it's ugly to look at.
Moderation sees itself as beautiful; it is unaware that in the eye of the immoderate it appears black and sober and consequently ugly-looking
Spy' is such a short ugly word. I prefer 'espionage.' Those extra three syllables really say something.
To be poor, ugly and, moreover, intelligent condemns one in our society to a dark and disillusioned life...to beauty all is forgiven.
Sometimes, it seemed like she was trying to hide everything that was pretty about her. Like she wanted to look ugly.
Society in itself is no great harm, but unsatisfied social aspirations are a bad and ugly business. We must certainly accept, and we will.
