"Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone."
— Dorothy Parker

"When she awoke, the world was on fire."
— Scott Westerfeld (Uglies)

"The very idea of making shoes by hand boggled her mind."
— Scott Westerfeld (Uglies)

"Look!You want to see? See! Feast your eyes, glut your soul on my cursed ugliness! Look at Erik's face! Now you know the face of the voice! You were not content to hear me, eh? You wanted to know what I looked like? Oh, you women are so inquisitive! Well, are you satisfied? I'm a good-looking fellow, eh?...When a woman has seen me, as you have, she belongs to me.She loves me forever! I am a kind of Don Juan, you know!...Look at me! I am Don Juan Triumphant!
-Erik in The Phantom of the Opera"
— Gaston Leroux

"I have an important message to deliver to all the cute people all over the world. If you're out there and you're cute, maybe you're beautiful. I just want to tell you somethin' — there's more of us UGLY MOTHERFUCKERS than you are, hey-y, so watch out."
— Frank Zappa

"There are no people who are ugly. There are only people who are beautiful."
— Rin Avey

"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.
"
— Weird Al Yankovic

"Let’s not mince words: the inside of the Sydney casino looks as if Vegas had an illegitimate child with Liberace’s underpants, and that child fell down a staircase and hit its head on the edge of a spade."
— Steve Toltz (A Fraction of the Whole)

"Yes, madam, I am drunk. But in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly."
— Winston Churchill

"It is the sheer ugliness and banality of everyday life which turns my blood to ice and makes me cringe in terror."
— Jean Lorrain