"The beautiful has but one type, the..." - Quote by Victor Hugo
The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.
More by Victor Hugo
“Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.”
“I had a dream my life would be different from this hell I am living, so different from what it seemed. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.”
“There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing.”
More on Beauty
“Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.”
“As the skies appear to a man, so is his mind. Some see only clouds there; some, prodigies and portents; some rarely look up at all; their heads, like the brutes,' are directed toward Earth. Some behold there serenity, purity, beauty ineffable. The world runs to see the panorama, when there is a panorama in the sky which few go to see.”
“Autumn is really the best of the seasons; and I'm not sure that old age isn't the best part of life.”
More on Ugliness
“What's the difference between beautiful and ugly?”
“We shall not attempt to give the reader an idea of that tetrahedron nose-that horse-shoe mouth-that small left eye over-shadowed by a red bushy brow, while the right eye disappeared entirely under an enormous wart-of those straggling teeth with breaches here and there like the battlements of a fortress-of that horny lip, over which one of those teeth projected like the tusk of an elephant-of that forked chin-and, above all, of the expression diffused over the whole-that mixture of malice, astonishment, and melancholy. Let the reader, if he can, figure to himself this combination.”
“It is doubtful whether anyone who has travelled widely has found anywhere in the world regions more ugly than in the human face.”