Plain Quotes

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When a plain-looking woman is loved, it is certain to be very passionately ; for either her influence on her lover is irresistible, or she… — Jean de la Bruyere
A man may be capable, as Jack Ketch's wife said of his servant, of a plain piece of work, a bare hanging; but to makea… — John Dryden
[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English. — Ben Jonson
Egoism , which is the moving force of the world, and altruism , which is its morality , these two contradictory instincts , of which… — Joseph Conrad
The only excuse for a novelist, aside from the entertainment and vicarious living his books give the people who read them, is as a sort… — John Dos Passos
Modern critics, who refuse to let a plain thing alone, have now started a theory that Cervantes's work is a vast piece of "symbolism." If… — Stephen Leacock
In Africa a thing is true at first light and a lie by noon and you have no more respect for it than for the… — Ernest Hemingway
For it is a plain fact that, most certainly in the West, the writings, works of art, musical compositions which are of central reference, comport… — George Steiner
Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery. — R. Buckminster Fuller
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a… — Oliver Cromwell
The mortal enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who, in contempt of the plain arithmetic, continue to mislead Americans that we should change… — Mitch Daniels
It's not a bad idea to occasionally spend a little time thinking about things you take for granted. Plain everyday things. — Evan Davis
Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price. — Amelia Earhart
Some of these kids just don't plain know how good they are: how smart and how much they have to say. You can tell them.… — Dave Eggers
God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean. — Albert Einstein
Now suddenly there was nothing but a world of cloud, and we three were there alone in the middle of a great white plain with… — Black Elk
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Writing for the page is only one form of writing for the eye. Wherever solemn inscriptions are put up in public places, there is a… — James Fenton
A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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