He'll be all right when he's married, as Mama says; and reformed rakes make the best husbands, everybody knows. I only wish he were not so uglyöthat's all I think aboutöbut then there's no choice here in the country.

-Bronte«  , Anne
  Agnes Grey, ch.13.

I grant an ugly woman is a blot on the fair face of creation; but as to the gentleman, let them be solicitous to possess only strength and valour: let their motto be:öHunt, shoot, and fight: the rest is not worth a flip.

-Bronte«  , Charlotte
  Jane Eyre ch.17.

All Middlesex is ugly, notwithstanding the millions upon millionswhichit iscontinuallysucking up fromtherestof the kingdom.

-Cobbett,William
  Rural Rides (published1830), entry for 25 Sep.

Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

-Cocteau,Jean
  In the NewYork World-Telegram and Sun, 21  Aug.

There isnothing ugly; I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it mayölight, shade and perspective will always make it beautiful.

-Constable,John
Quoted in C R Leslie Memoirs of theLife of John Constable (1843).

Errors look so very ugly in persons of small meansöone feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortunemay naturally indulgeina few delinquencies.

-Eliot, George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans
  Scenes of Clerical Life, ch.25.

Beauty isthe first test: there isno permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

-Hardy, Godfrey Harold
A Mathematician's  Apology.

Me'  re Ubu, tu es bien laide aujourd'hui. Est-ce parce que nous avons du monde? Mother Ubu, you are very ugly today. Is it because we have company?

-Jarry, Alfred
  Ubu Roi, act1, sc.1.

A tourist is an ugly human being.

-Kincaid,Jamaica originally Elaine Potter Richardson
  A Small Place.

   It is better to be beautiful than to be good.But†it is better to be good than to be ugly.

-Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills
The Picture of Dorian Gray, ch.17.