Ugly American

Famous quotes containing the words ugly and/or american:

    What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
    Victor Hugo (1802–1885)

    The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self- service populace, and all our specious comforts—the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria—are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy.
    Edward Dahlberg (1900–1977)