A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
— Roald Dahl
Provocative Ugly Face quotations
Beauty is more than just shining for others.
You don’t need to have the perfect face to be beautiful. Being ugly or beautiful is a matter of energy, and true beauty comes from the heart.
After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference.
The more clearly we recognize how deep our commitment to self-protection operates in our relational style and the more courageously we face the ugliness of protecting ourselves rather than loving others, the more we'll shift our direction.
Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.
That was' one time when my technique absolutely deserted me, I must admit.
There was a wax face that he had created himself to cover his own ugliness. I was in his clutches and I had to hit him in the face.
So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face.
I have an ugly day every month; pimples on my face, I'm fat and in a bad mood. It's more like an ugly week!
A fine head of hair adds beauty to a good face, and terror to an ugly one.
Better an ugly face than an ugly mind.
I was always told I was ugly. I still think I am ugly. I know I've got an odd face and you can't tell me otherwise.
I have seen flowers come in stony places And kind things done by men with ugly faces, And the gold cup won by the worst horse at the races, So I trust, too.
A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.
Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.
Lookin' for love in all the wrong places, no fine girls just ugly faces.
Even as late as the summer of 2006, as home prices began to fall, it took a certain kind of person to see the ugly facts and react to them-to discern, in the profile of the beautiful young lady, the face of an old witch.
I'm an ugly girl, My face makes you hurl, Sad I have it, I should bag it.
Acne everywhere, Unwanted facial hair. I'm a relation to Frankenstein's creation.
Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life.
Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears;
it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn't being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love--it's being unhappy together.
It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.
I would prefer to have a more appealing job.
If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
People really, really hate their religion being criticized.
It's as though you've said they had an ugly face; they seem to identify personally with it.
Style is the physiognomy of the mind.
It is more infallible than that of the body. To imitate the style of another is said to be wearing a mask. However beautiful it may be, it is through its lifelessness insipid and intolerable, so that even the most ugly living face is more engaging.
Girls are supposed to be feminine and demure.
Comedy isn't about that, so you just have to unlearn it. Certain women are so pretty, they can't go weird enough to be funny. You have to be willing to be ugly. I'm lucky my face can look so hideous.
They call me corrupt, frivolous. I am not at all privileged. Maybe the only privileged thing is my face. And corrupt? God! I would not look like this if I am corrupt. Some ugliness would settle down on my system.
An ugly voice repels me where an ugly face would not.
Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person; if her face is so shocking that she must in some degree be conscious of it, her figure and her air, she trusts, make ample amends for it.
He had a big head and a face so ugly it became almost fascinating.
Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person; if her face is so shocking that she must in some degree be conscious of it, her figure and her air, she trusts, make ample amends for it.
The strange, unbeautiful face beautiful in its ugliness;
the perfect, beautiful face ugly in its perfection.
I understand business and understand the ugly face of baseball, which is the business part of baseball.
It is only very ugly or very beautiful women who ever hide their faces .
The only ugliness is that of the heart, seen through the face.
And though beauty be obvious, the only loveliness is invisible.
There is no sight so ugly as the human face in anger.
Seven times have I despised my soul: The sixth time when she despised the ugliness of a face, and knew not that it was one of her own masks.