How unpleasant to meet Mr Eliot! With his features of clerical cut, And his brow so grim And his mouth so prim.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  'Five-Finger Exercises'.

That's cynical. [Smiles.] Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

-Hellman, Lillian Florence
  Ben. The Little Foxes, act1.

  Why shouldn't art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.

-Renoir, Pierre Auguste
Quoted in Ian Chilvers and Harold Osborne (eds) The Oxford Dictionary of Art (1994).

'I grant you that he's not two-faced,' I said.'But what's the use of that when the one face he has got is so peculiarly unpleasant?'

-Snow, C(harles) P(ercy), 1st Baron
  TheAffair, ch.4.