Plain Quotes

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The plain fact is that she never really liked me, and never wanted me. I had been a mistake; and that, to some extent, is… — Jonathan Coe
A lie keeps growing and growing until it's as plain as the nose on your face. — Walt Disney
We often cause ourselves suffering by wanting only to live in a world of valleys, a world without struggle and difficulty, a world that is… — Bell Hooks
An ordinary life examined closely reveals itself to be exquisite and complicated and exceptional, somehow managing to be both heroic and plain. — Susan Orlean
Phresine showed him where he could sleep, in an interior room with no windows, a narrow bed, and a washstand. There were chests stacked along… — Megan Whalen Turner
Her definition of romance was absentminded intimacy, the way someone else's hand stray to your plate of food. I replied: no, that's just friendship; romance… — Kamila Shamsie
Gentlemen, be courteous to the old maids, no matter how poor and plain and prim, for the only chivalry worth having is that which is… — Louisa May Alcott
Up till now I always thought bickering was just something children did and they outgrew it. Of course, there's sometimes a reason to have a… — Anne Frank
But it is much later in the game now, and ignorance of the score is inexcusable. To be unaware that a technology comes equipped with… — Neil Postman
You run risks. That's the plain truth. You run risks and, even in the most unlikely places, you are subject to destiny's whims. — Roberto Bolano
Mrs. Charlotte Phelan's Guide to Husband-Hunting, Rule Number One: a pretty, petite girl should accentuate with makeup and good posture. A tall plain one, with… — Kathryn Stockett
Can anything be more disgusting than to hear people called 'educated' making small jokes about eating ham, and showing themselves empty of any real knowledge… — George Eliot
Someday, weâ€™ll run into each other again, I know it. Maybe Iâ€™ll be older and smarter and just plain better. If that happens, thatâ€™s when… — Gabrielle Zevin
The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to… — H. L. Mencken
Oh, 'twould be marvelous if the world and its moral questions were like some game board, with plain black players and white, and fixed rules,… — Glen Cook
Thus thought I, as by night I read Of the great army of the dead, The trenches cold and damp, The starved and frozen camp,--… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
She dug in her backpack, found her cell phone, and checked for coverage. It was kind of lame in Morganville, truthfully, out in the middle… — Rachel Caine
I never realized that life could be as difficult for a beautiful woman as it is for a plain one,â€ he said. â€œLife can be… — Patricia Grasso
A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain. — Oscar Wilde
Nearly all bookish people are snobs, and especially the more enlightened among them. They are apt to assume that if a writer has immense circulation,… — Arnold Bennett

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