O, what a world of vile ill-favoured faults,
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!
Source: Anne, in The Merry Wives of Windsor, act 3, sc. 4.
-- William Shakespeare, (Apr 23 1564-1616), English dramatist, poet; He is considered the greatest writer in any language for his 154 sonnets and 37 plays, e.g., Hamlet, 1600.