Ugliness

The quality or state of being ugly.

n.

A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility.

Quotes:

"It's nothing to be born ugly. Sensibly, the ugly woman comes to terms with her ugliness and exploits it as a grace of nature. To become ugly means the beginning of a calamity, self-willed most of the time." - Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

"I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it." - Salvador Dali

"The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts." - Serge Gainsbourg

"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

"Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy in its presence. The effect of the ugly can be measured with a dynamometer. Whenever man feels in any way depressed, he senses the proximity of something ugly. His feeling of power, his will to power, his courage, his pride -- they decline with the ugly, they increase with the beautiful." - Friedrich Nietzsche

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