Plainer Quotes

21 quotes by 21 authors

The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear. — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
Mr Hooke sent, in his next letter [to Sir Isaac Newton] the whole of his Hypothesis, scil that the gravitation was reciprocall to the square… — John Aubrey
In science there is a dictum: don't add an experiment to an experiment. Don't make things unnecessarily complicated. In writing fiction, the more fantastic the… — Ben Bova
The shorter and the plainer the better. — Beatrix Potter
But my later experience has taught me two lessons: first, that things are seen plainer after the events have occurred; second, that the most confident… — Ulysses S. Grant
It is raining DNA outside. On the bank of the Oxford canal at the bottom of my garden is a large willow tree, and it… — Richard Dawkins
Nothing is plainer than that, if the principles of the church of Rome prevail here, our Constitution would fall. The two cannot exist together. They… — Richard Thompson
True economy consists in always making the income exceed the out-go. Wear the old clothes a little longer if necessary; dispense with the new pair… — P T Barnum
Playing a plainer role means everything is dependent on the credentials of the actor, not the fact that they are as pretty as Julia Roberts.… — Laura Carmichael
Promising is the very air o' th' time; it opens the eyes of expectation. Performance is ever duller for his act; and, but in the… — William Shakespeare
I am, in plainer words, a bundle of prejudices - made up of likings and dislikings. — Charles Lamb
The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It is marvelous, yet… — Victor Hugo
Wonder is our erotic affiliation with all of life. If we develop this, enjoy it, and follow its promptings, our wants will be fewer and… — Stephanie Mills
Be subtle, various, ornamental, clever, And do not listen to those critics ever Whose crude provincial gullets crave in books Plain cooking made still plainer… — Wystan Hugh Auden
I can put it no plainer than by saying that Bilbo was meant to find the Ring, and not by its maker. In which case… — J.R.R. Tolkien
How much easier my life would be if I did not love you! I thought. How much less painful, but how much plainer. How much… — Cameron Dokey
One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier. — Helen Keller
Facts speak plainer than words — Aesop
I do assure you, Sir, that I have no pretension whatever of that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man. I would… — Jane Austen
Back then, things were plainer: less money, no electronic devices, little fashion tyranny, no girlfriends. There was nothing to distract us from our human and… — Julian Barnes

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