#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

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#bent #evil #left #making #markers

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant. ↗

— Douglas Horton

#constant #ugliness #variable

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

— Salvador Dali

#grew #i #immediately #knee #seated

Stanley didn't shy away from true humanity or from the ugliness that all people are capable of. ↗

— Matthew Modine

#capable #humanity #people #shy #stanley

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#every #fashion #form #intolerable #months

A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder. ↗

— Stephen King

#beauty #beholder #children #eye #eye of the beholder

Scientific vocabulary can be so weird. The Large Hadron Collider at CERN has just recorded an example of a subatomic particle called the anti-beauty quark. Could it be that ugly people now have something tangible to blame? ↗

— Michael Quinion

#large-hadron-collider #ugliness #beauty

America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#given #good #many #most #over