
“Funny how a beautiful song could tell such an ugly story.”
Variant: funny how a beautiful song could tell such a sad story
Source: Lock and Key
“Funny how a beautiful song could tell such an ugly story.”
Variant: funny how a beautiful song could tell such a sad story
Source: Lock and Key
Introduction to Isadora Duncan : Six Movement Designs (1906)
Quote
“One
man’s “ugly” is another man’s “beautiful.”
Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship
“Life is neither ugly nor beautiful, but it's original!”
Source: La coscienza di Zeno (1923), P. 275; p. 330.
“A book is like a man — clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly.”
On Publishing
Writers at Work (1977)
Context: A book is like a man — clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.
“God never made an ugly landscape. All that the sun shines on is beautiful, so long as it is wild.”
pages 16-21 (at page 16)
1890s, The National Parks and Forest Reservations, 1895