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A blank, helpless sort of face, rather like a rose just
before you drench it with DDT.
- John Carey
Last week, I stated that this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I
have since been visited by her sister, and now wish to withdraw that statement.
- Mark Twain
If people looked like their passport photos, very few nations would let them in.
- Doug Larson
A modest little person, with much to be modest about.
- Winston Churchill
At first I thought he was walking a dog. Then I realized it was his date.
- Edith Massey
Look at him, a rhinestone in the rough.
- Dorothy Parker
She was incredibly ugly, uglier than almost anyone I had ever met. A thin,
withered creature, she sat hunched in her chair, in her heavy tweed suit and her
thick lisle stockings, impregnable and indifferent. She had a huge nose, a dark
mustache, and her dark-dyed hair was combed into absurd bangs over her forehead.
- Otto Friedrich, on Alice B. Toklas
He had a big head and a face so ugly it became almost fascinating.
- Ayn Rand
He makes a very handsome corpse and becomes his coffin prodigiously.
- Oliver Goldsmith
He must have had a magnificent build before his stomach went in for a career of
its own.
- Margaret Halsey
He looked as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.
- Raymond Chandler
He was either a man of about a hundred and fifty who was rather young for his
years, or a man of about a hundred and ten who had been aged by trouble.
- P.G. Wodehouse
He looks like a dwarf who's been dipped in a bucket of pubic hair.
- Boy George, on Prince
He's a trellis for varicose veins.
- Wilson Mizner
He's so small, he's a waste of skin.
- Fred Allen
He'd make a lovely corpse.
- Charles Dickens
Her face was her chaperone.
- Rupert Hughes
Her hat is a creation that will never go out of style. It will look ridiculous
year after year.
- Fred Allen
Her skin was white as leprosy.
- S. T. Coleridge
His face is livid, gaunt his whole body, his breath is green with gall, his
tongue drips poison.
- John Quincy Adams
Joe Frazier is so ugly, he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wildlife.
- Muhammad Ali
His face was filled with broken commandments.
- John Masefield
His smile is like the silver plate on a coffin.
- John Philpot Curran
While you remain at home your hair is at the hairdresser's, you take out your
teeth at night and sleep tucked away in a hundred cosmetics boxes - even your
face does not sleep with you.
- Martial, 1st Century AD
Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?
- Mark Twain
Men seldom make passes, at girls who wear glasses.
- Dorothy Parker
Anyone might become homosexual after seeing Glenda Jackson naked.
- Auberon Waugh
He looks like King Edward - the potato, not the monarch.
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