Plain Quotes

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Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science. — George Eliot
It is the plain women who know about love; the beautiful women are too busy being fascinating. — Katharine Hepburn
I find along with many virtues in my countrymen there is a jealousy, a soreness, and readiness to take offence, as if they were the… — Edmund Burke
Look round and round upon this bare bleak plain, and see even here, upon a winter's day, how beautiful the shadows are! Alas! It is… — Charles Dickens
The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses;… — Ernst Mach
In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger. — Maurice Sendak
I think a certain amount of anger has been a fuel of mine, if you want - but also some sort of sadness, and plain… — Siouxsie Sioux
I write because I want more than one life; I insist on a wider selection. It's greed, plain and simple. — Anne Tyler
All the things I thought I was - simple and plain and sometime funny - are very small words. They do not begin to describe… — Adriana Trigiani
You are not so good a Christian when you are neglecting a plain duty as when you are performing it. And joining the church is… — Washington Gladden
What you deny to others will be denied to you, for the plain reason that you are always legislating for yourself; all your words and… — Thaddeus Golas
Seduction is an absolute pleasure to read -- clever, suspenseful, exciting, mysterious, learned, and engrossing. Some of the best historical fiction I've read in quite… — David Liss
Praise lies upon a higher plain than thanksgiving. When I give thanks, my thoughts still circle around myself to some extent. But in praise my… — Ole Hallesby
This is my breakfast: Two poached eggs, turkey bacon, and a half avocado. The yolks in a poached egg are alkalizing. Avocados are a great… — April Bowlby
A massive and brilliant accomplishment--the first English translation of the original Grimm brothers' fairy tales. The plain telling is that much more forceful for its… — Donna Jo Napoli
The state within a state is hiding mostly in plain sight, — Mike Lofgren
It now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one...the Descent of Man from… — Mark Twain
We fill the hands and nurseries of our children with all manner of dolls, drums and horses, withdrawing their eyes from the plain face and...… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The mantle of glamour has been taken from the women and given to the men. The women toil in their shadows, plain and ordinary-looking. So… — RuPaul
It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing… — Robert Collier

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