“The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty.”

“Physical beauty wasn't the same as True Beauty, any more than pretty ugly meant truly ugly or Magnetic North meant True North.”

“Love means both beautiful and ugly. Because it does not discriminate against anyone.”

“The world of architecture – and of works conceived for architecture – tends towards beauty. True beauty tends towards ugliness and panic.”

“And what is there else but pleasure, and to what else does beauty move on?”

“What we are pursuing is beauty, nothing but beauty. It's not true beauty if we didn't create it. Creating beauty with beauty is not true beauty either; real beauty is achieved by transforming the ugly into the beautiful.”

“Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caresses of a subhumanly ugly mate?”

“What good is modesty? — It makes us seem more beautiful when we are beautiful, and less ugly when we are ugly.”

“The so called 'inner beauty' is simply character. It's your behaviour or attitude towards the world and people around you. Meaning, it can be beautiful and ugly too!”

“Stay beautiful, keep it ugly.”