Homely Quotes
59 quotes by 54 authors
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Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.
— Martha Beck
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My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda, they all had dark hair. The…
— Michael Caine
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But the place which you have selected for your camp, though never so rough and grim, begins at once to have its attractions, and becomes…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the end it can lift up…
— Bruce Catton
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Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.
— William Shakespeare
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Thou unassuming common-place of Nature, with that homely face.
— William Wordsworth
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I'm not homely enough to play the nerdy girl and not nearly pretty enough to play the pretty girl.
— Kristen Bell
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I believe in my cosmetics line. There are plenty of charities for the homeless. Isn't it time someone helped the homely?
— Dolly Parton
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I was a homely kid with freckles that came out every spring and stuck on me till Christmas.
— Myrna Loy
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A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.
— Minna Antrim
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Dear Lord, who made the face of me not all that I would have it be, not really homely, only plain, but strong and patient…
— Ruth Perry
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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.
— Austin O'Malley
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The practice of kindness is the daily, friendly, homely caring form of love. It is both humble-a schoolboy bringing his teacher a bouquet of dandelions-and…
— Dawna Markova
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My themes will not be far-fetched. I will tell of homely every-day phenomena and adventures.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Vultures are homely, but they clean up all the garbage and that's good. And they're elegant in the sky.
— Roger Tory Peterson
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There is not a single homely thing that, looked at from a certain angle, does not become fairy.
— Hope Mirrlees
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There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of the characters of…
— Brander Matthews
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There are a lot of homely women in women's studies. Preaching these anti-male, anti-sex sermons is a way for them to compensate for various heartaches--they're…
— Christina Hoff Sommers
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Into all our lives, in many simple, familiar, homely ways, God infuses this element of joy from the surprises of life, which unexpectedly brighten our…
— Samuel Longfellow
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I'm too homely for a prima donna and too ugly for a soubrette.
— Marie Dressler
Who Wrote These Homely Quotes
54 authors contributed a total of 59 Homely Quotes, led by these top contributors: