Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes

I'm crass, contemptuous and crude, obstreperous, obnoxious, rambunctiously raw and rude.

Sleaze is a point by point refutation of elegance.

Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

Good taste is death; vulgarity is life.

Rudeness is something I just can't tolerate.

Nothing turns me off faster than a guy being unkind.

In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.

I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.

Opinions are like assholes. Everybody's got one and they all stink.

I abhor mere prettiness.

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

Ugliness is nature's contraceptive.

Discourtesy is unspeakably ugly to me.

... vulgarity has no nation.

For something to be beautiful it doesn’t have to be pretty.

Ugliness does not sell.

Belgrade is the ugliest city in the world in the most beautiful place in the world.

Absolute and entire ugliness is rare.

Elegance and beauty have been banished.

The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy. There is a certain crudeness and crassness that has suddenly become accepted behavior, even desirable.

If I have done anything, it is to make ugly appealing.

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

Beauty without wit offers nothing but the enjoyment of its material charms, whilst witty ugliness captivates by the charms of the mind, and at last fulfils all the desires of the man it has captivated.