Richard Brinsley Sheridan Quotes

A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.

I'm not that obsessed with making representations of ugliness. Everything I've seen is beautiful.

I'm surrounded by young and beautiful people. I hate looking at ugliness.

Does he have ugly hands? Sometimes beautiful people have ugly hands." "No he has kind of amazing hands.

No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.

I like the ideology of there being no such thing as perfection. But I'm of the opinion that I have witnessed perfection at various times, especially in art.

What's amazing is that the taste of American men and international tastes in terms of beauty have essentially stayed the same. Styles change, but our view of beauty stays the same.

The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.

We Orientals find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and darkness which that thing provides.

I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.

To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.

I always loved aesthetics. Not particularly fashion, but an idea of beauty.

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.

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

It's hard to blow an ugly bubble.

If you met Faith Hill in person, you would think she's absolutely beautiful. And when you take her picture, you will see every flaw that you never saw in person. Those flaws not only become visible but magnified.

I think for something to be beautiful, it has to have some darkness in it; otherwise, it's just pretty. And pretty does not interest me at all.

The ugly can achieve an absoluteness beyond the reach of beauty.

Moderation sees itself as beautiful; it is unaware that in the eye of the immoderate it appears black and sober and consequently ugly-looking.

Health is beauty, and the most perfect health is the most perfect beauty.

I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness.