Plainly Quotes

194 quotes by 163 authors

If a woman's young and pretty, I think you can see her good looks all the better for her being plainly dressed. — George Eliot
The law of God, as quite plainly expressed in woman's construction, is this: There shall be no limit put upon your intercourse with the other… — Mark Twain
At times it has been doubtful to me if Emerson really knows or feels what Poetry is at its highest, as in the Bible, for… — Walt Whitman
Nice clothes fall apart. Nice clocks don't work. Bits fall off the nice cooker. It is hard to accept that pricing is unrelated to quality,… — Lynne Truss
Let me just say that to imagine racism does not exist is imagination. And to imagine that it does not create its own set of… — Phylicia Rashad
The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world,… — Joseph Butler
We can see quite plainly that our present civilization is built on the exploitation of animals, just as past civilisations were built on the exploitation… — Donald Watson
How fleeting are the wishes and efforts of man! how short his time! and consequently how poor will his products be, compared with those accumulated… — Charles Darwin
Half the American population no longer reads newspapers: plainly, they are the clever half. — Gore Vidal
We plainly perceive that the mind strengthens and decays with the body. — Lucretius
Any one who speaks in favor of bringing the Arab refugees back must also say how he expects to take the responsibility for it, if… — Golda Meir
If you do the things that Britain needs to do - namely, withdraw from NATO, get rid of the bomb, and stop being aligned with… — David Hare
I can understand how evolution says, "don't believe in God", but I've never had this problem. I've always loved His creation. Unfortunately, this doesn't mean… — Betty Cuthbert
Surely it is a great thing to increase the numerous host of fixed stars previously visible to the unaided vision, adding countless more which have… — Galileo Galilei
For a long time visits among lovers and professions of love are kept up through habit, after their behavior has plainly proved that love no… — Jean de la Bruyere
Every sect is a certificate that God has not plainly revealed his will to man. To each reader the Bible conveys a different meaning. — Robert Green Ingersoll
It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delivered. — Dan Flavin
The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the… — Abraham Lincoln
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood. — William Penn
It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists. — John Ruskin

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