Plain Quotes

1043 quotes by 821 authors

The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society… — George Bernard Shaw
Best be yourself, imperial, plain, and true. — Robert Browning
But happiness is not always loud and bright and crowded. Happiness ripens like a watermelon, sweet and rosy on the inside with only a thin… — E L Konigsburg
She conceived of life as a road down which one traveled, an easy enough road through a broad country, and that one's destination was there… — Marilynne Robinson
However contradictory the coroner's report â€” whether he pronounces Consumption or Loneliness or Suicide to be the cause of death â€” isn't it plain how… — J D Salinger
The facts of his existence are plain. I know that he will never silence those unspeakable voices. He heard how people killed, and how they… — Meg Rosoff
When money's tight and is hard to get And your horse has also ran, When all you have is a heap of debt A PINT… — Flann O'Brien
I didn't know shorthand either. This meant I couldn't get a good job after college. My mother kept telling me nobody wanted a plain English… — Sylvia Plath
I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write Englishâ€•it is the modern way and… — Mark Twain
The vestibule door opens onto a June morning so fine and scrubbed Classira pauses at the threshold as she would at the edge of a… — Michael Cunningham
Sometimes you have to gag on fancy before you can appreciate plain, th' way I see it. For too many years, I ate fancy, I… — Jan Karon
There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that… — Herman Melville
A pretentious, showy life is an empty life; a plain and simple life is a full life. — Rick Warren
There is little to be gained by seeking after the mysteries, for there is hardly time in a lifetime to master the plain and precious… — Boyd K. Packer
I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.' I should think so… — J.R.R. Tolkien
There was a reason for the cost of those perfectly plain black dresses. — Dorothy Parker
Arraigned at my own bar, Memory having given her evidence of the hopes, wishes, sentiments I had been cherishing since last night-- of the general… — Charlotte Bronte
I want you to know it was no big deal...those movies showing women screaming in labor are plain bullshit....there's nothing to it...you just push and… — Judy Blume
It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.'… — Isaac Asimov
I can indeed hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true for if so the plain language of the text seems to… — Charles Darwin

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