“It is better to be beautiful then to be good, but it is better to be good then to be ugly.”
Variant: It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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Irish writer and poet 1854–1900Related quotes
“Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.”
“Good is a good doctor, but Bad is sometimes a better.”
Considerations by the Way
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variant: Good is a good doctor, but Bad is sometimes a better.
“A beautiful 35-year old ain't as good-looking as an ugly 19-year old.”
September 24, 2008
The Opie and Anthony Radio show
“This is our epoch, good or bad, beautiful or ugly, rich or poor — we did not choose it.”
The Saviors of God (1923)
Context: This is our epoch, good or bad, beautiful or ugly, rich or poor — we did not choose it. This is our epoch, the air we breathe, the mud given us, the bread, the fire, the spirit!
Let us accept Necessity courageously. It is our lot to have fallen on fighting times. Let us tighten our belts, let us arm our hearts, our minds, and our bodies. Let us take our place in battle!
On the subject progress. Source: Interview with French writer Roger Errera, 1974. New York Review of Books. As quoted by Scroll Staff (December 04, 2017): Ideas in literature: Ten things Hannah Arendt said that are eerily relevant in today’s political times https://web.archive.org/web/20191001213756/https://scroll.in/article/856549/ten-things-hannah-arendt-said-that-are-eerily-relevant-in-todays-political-times. In: Scroll.in. Archived from the original https://scroll.in/article/856549/ten-things-hannah-arendt-said-that-are-eerily-relevant-in-todays-political-times on October 1, 2019.
“Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.”
Source: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
“Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed.”