Plain Quotes

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To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her… — Jane Austen
The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people. — Irving Babbitt
Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. — Francis Bacon
How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! — Samuel Adams
The Book of Mormon offers so much that broadens our understandings of the doctrines of salvation. Without it, much of what is taught in other… — Ezra Taft Benson
Here lies a plain and simple Jew who wrote in plain and simple prose. — Sholom Aleichem
Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong. — Muhammad Ali
Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go. — Anton Chekhov
That's what a good crime novelist - any good novelist - should do with you: play with your perceptions while showing you everything in plain… — Harlan Coben
Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise. — Maya Angelou
The more we are proud that the Bethlehem story is plain enough to be understood by the shepherds, and almost by the sheep, the more… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
To do Mohammed justice, his main attack was against the idolatries of Asia. Only he thought, just as the Arians did and just as the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The British soldiers are fellows who have all enlisted for drink. That is the plain fact - they have all enlisted for drink. — Duke of Wellington
They are a doomed race. Wars, smallpox, gross immorality, a change from old ways to new ways their fate is the common fate of the… — George Amos Dorsey
Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet. — Mary Wortley Montagu
Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and… — Henry Ward Beecher
I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still… — Black Elk
Prejudice, which sees what it pleases, cannot see what is plain. — Aubrey Thomas de Vere
There is no color line in death. I swear to the lord I still can't see Why Democracy means Everybody but me. O, yes, I… — Langston Hughes

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