Plain living and high thinking are no more. The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone; our peace, our fearful… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
I was a homely kid with freckles that came out every spring and stuck on me till Christmas. — Myrna Loy Copy Share Image
There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of… — Brander Matthews Copy Share Image
Quite the ugliest face I ever saw was that of a woman whom the world called beautiful. Through its silver veil the… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
The pilasters reaching down were adorned with a glistering substance (I know not what) under glass (as it seemed), resembling - a… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
My new city [Seattle] and its hinterland felt deceptively homely. Their similar latitude gave them the angular light and lingering evenings I… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
Dear Lord, who made the face of me not all that I would have it be, not really homely, only plain, but… — Ruth Perry Copy Share Image
Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury. If everyday experience… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
The man who could withstand, with his fellow-men in single line, a charge of cavalry may lose all command of himself on… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
Robert Frost says in a piece of homely doggerel that he has hoped wisdom could be not only Attic but Laconic, Boeotian… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Because I like that I got an ugly girl's personality. In other words, a homely girl always has to develop that muscle.… — Goldie Hawn Copy Share Image
There is not a single homely thing that, looked at from a certain angle, does not become fairy. — Hope Mirrlees Copy Share Image
It is for homely features to keep home,- They had their name thence; coarse complexions And cheeks of sorry grain will serve… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The selective instinct of the artist tells him when his language should be homely, and when it should be more elevated; and… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
There is a charm, even for homely things, in perfect maintenance. — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
My themes will not be far-fetched. I will tell of homely every-day phenomena and adventures. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We assume that good-looking people are smarter and more effective than they really are, and that homely people are the reverse. — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
An astonishing book. In compelling language, both homely and elegant, Young Men and Fire miraculously combines a fascinating primer on fires and… — Timothy Foote Copy Share Image
But the place which you have selected for your camp, though never so rough and grim, begins at once to have its… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The children who are appreciated for what they are, even if they are homely, or clumsy, or slow, will grow up with… — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely way, there God is hewing out the pillars for His… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Post 9/11, so much has changed in New York that it does not give you that homely feeling which it did before. — Mira Nair Copy Share Image
Keep clear of courts: a homely life transcends The vaunted bliss of monarchs and their friends. — Horace Copy Share Image
Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury. — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Alas! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted Shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless muse; Were it… — John Milton Copy Share Image
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