Best Homely Quotes

59 Homely quotes by 52 unique authors

The life we led was a proof of man's capacity for adaptation.I think that even the condemned souls in purgatory after time develop a sort… — Arthur Koestler
Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations. — Maya Angelou
There is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel, that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than… — M.F.K. Fisher
The pilasters reaching down were adorned with a glistering substance (I know not what) under glass (as it seemed), resembling - a homely fancy, but… — Charles Lamb
It's very homely, this castle. It doesn't have huge ballrooms. I didn't want a cold, cavernous place. — Enya
Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to… — Lord Chesterfield
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women. — O. Henry
It is a high distinction for a homely woman to be loved for her character rather than for beauty. — Plutarch
My new city [Seattle] and its hinterland felt deceptively homely. Their similar latitude gave them the angular light and lingering evenings I was used to.… — Jonathan Raban
There is a homely old adage which runs: "Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far." If the American nation will speak… — Theodore Roosevelt
The mind of man has no defense To equal plain, old common sense. This homely virtue don't despise, If you would be happy as well… — Don Herold
With little here to do or see Of things that in the great world be, Sweet Daisy! oft I talk to thee For thou art… — William Wordsworth
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; -… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Getting talked about is one of the penalties for being pretty, while being above suspicion is about the only compensation for being homely. — Kin Hubbard
If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at… — H. L. Mencken
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
We assume that good-looking people are smarter and more effective than they really are, and that homely people are the reverse. — James Surowiecki
I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse. — Anthony Trollope
The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight... [Breadmaking is] one… — M.F.K. Fisher
She saw herself riding in the passenger seat, Sam behind the wheel. Like two of those little peg people in a toy car. Husband peg,… — Anne Tyler
Nothing fires the warrior’s heart more with courage than to find himself and his comrades at the point of annihilation, at the brink of being… — Steven Pressfield
There is fire and fire: The fire that burns and the fire that gives warmth, a fire that sets a forest ablaze and the fire… — Gilbert Adair
Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth… — Jerome K. Jerome
Homely truth is unpalatable. — Mark Twain
And I like those authors best whose scenes describe my own situation in life-- and the friends who are about me whose stories touch me… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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