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"Ugly duckling" Quotes from Famous Books

... playing the ugly duckling,' cried Ursula, with mocking laughter. 'And I don't feel a bit like a humble and pathetic ugly duckling. I do feel like a swan among geese—I can't help it. They make one feel so. And I don't care what THEY think of ...

— Women in Love • D. H. Lawrence

... "The Ugly Duckling turned out a swan, you remember. I've always been fond of the boy because he's so genuine and original. Crude as a green apple now, but sound at the core, and only needs time to ripen. I'm sure he'll turn out a capital ...

— Rose in Bloom - A Sequel to "Eight Cousins" • Louisa May Alcott

... which many of his critics at the outset regarded as mere child's play. These were the fairy tales which he began in 1835, and which he published at intervals from that time until his death. The children loved The Ugly Duckling, The Fir Tree and The Snow Queen; but it was not only the children who loved them. Gradually people all over the world began to realize that here was a man who knew how to tell tales to children in so masterly a manner that even grown folks would do ...

— Journeys Through Bookland V2 • Charles H. Sylvester

... ate their breakfast at their leisure and prepared to drive their ugly duckling into the battle line again and finish the work of ...

— The Victim - A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis • Thomas Dixon

... was thoroughly characteristic: "Every house has its ugly duckling, dear boy," she observed quaintly, "and they seldom turn out swans except in story-books. However, it does not matter very much about a man's personal appearance; and you—why, you might have been ...

— Aunt Judith - The Story of a Loving Life • Grace Beaumont