UGLINESS in Classic Quotes

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1  There was an ugly story about it.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3
2  It is too ugly, too horrible, too distressing.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3
3  The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 1
4  He had told her once that he was wicked, and she had laughed at him and answered that wicked people were always very old and very ugly.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 20
5  It was a small party, got up rather in a hurry by Lady Narborough, who was a very clever woman with what Lord Henry used to describe as the remains of really remarkable ugliness.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 15
6  Some day, when you are old and wrinkled and ugly, when thought has seared your forehead with its lines, and passion branded your lips with its hideous fires, you will feel it, you will feel it terribly.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 2
7  If this girl can give a soul to those who have lived without one, if she can create the sense of beauty in people whose lives have been sordid and ugly, if she can strip them of their selfishness and lend them tears for sorrows that are not their own, she is worthy of all your adoration, worthy of the adoration of the world.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7