What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty; if you only have a sensibility to beauty? — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women. — O. Henry Copy Share Image
Vultures are homely, but they clean up all the garbage and that's good. And they're elegant in the sky. — Roger Tory Peterson Copy Share Image
There is a charm, even for homely things, in perfect maintenance. — Louis Auchincloss 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
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
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
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge 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
There is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel, that will leave you emptier of… — M. F. K. Fisher Copy Share Image
If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and… — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
The sentiment of virtue is a reverence and delight in the presence of certain divine laws. It perceives that this homely game… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I was horny, but I was innocent 'cause I was a real-late bloomer and not particularly attractive. In fact, homely. — Patti Smith 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
To us, to the everyday teachers of everyday students, neither of whom is writing the book of the universe but who both… — Marshall Gregory Copy Share Image
Management is a far more homely business than its would be scientists suggest, more closely allied to cookery than any other human… — Robert Heller Copy Share Image
Beauties, when disposed to sleep, Should from the eye of keen inspector keep: The lovely nymph who would her swain surprise, May… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
With little here to do or see Of things that in the great world be, Sweet Daisy! oft I talk to thee… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Above all things endeavor to breed them up the love of virtue, and that holy plain way of it which we have… — William Penn Copy Share Image
Our demand for good looks, expressed in the biting comments that ensue when public figures fall short of perfection, puts enormous pressures… — Virginia Postrel 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
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
The practice of kindness is the daily, friendly, homely caring form of love. It is both humble-a schoolboy bringing his teacher a… — Dawna Markova Copy Share Image
Recognizing that the world is governed by a minority, the sexually active, and that they hold sway of a huge majority of… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
But there are still many who continue to marvel at the wisdom of God in so planning the universe that big rivers… — Chapman Cohen 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
As I search the archives of my memory I seem to discern six types or methods [of judicial writing] which divide themselves… — Benjamin Cardozo 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
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
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