Plainness Quotes

22 quotes by 22 authors

The truth is, the Science of Nature has been already too long made only a work of the Brain and the Fancy: It is now… — Robert Hooke
[In the Royal Society, there] has been, a constant Resolution, to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style: to return back to the… — Thomas Sprat
One ought not to be unkind to a woman merely on account of her plainness, any more than one had a right to take liberties… — Murasaki Shikibu
It wasn't until I had performed by first autopsy that I realized that even the drabest human exteriors could contain the most beautiful viscera. After… — John B. S. Haldane
Trust a girl of sixteen for knowing well if she is pretty; concerning her plainness she may be ignorant. — Elizabeth Gaskell
If Beauty is excuse enough for Being, it sure takes Plainness then to feel the real necessity forâ€”Doing. — Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
Be neat, Philothea; let nothing be negligent about you. It is a kind of contempt of those with whom we converse, to frequent their company… — Saint Francis de Sales
The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity. — William Strunk, Jr.
It is with books as with women, where a certain plainness of manner and of dress is more engaging than that glare of paint and… — David Hume
It becomes possible to admit that plainness may coexist with nobility of nature, and fine features with baseness; and yet to hold that mental and… — Herbert Spencer
Knaves will thrive when honest plainness knows not how to live. — James Shirley
He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the "Iliad" itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with perfect nobleness; and… — Matthew Arnold
No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in… — William Law
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole… — Jodi Picoult
One love, one heart, one destiny. — Bob Marley
I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as… — Leo Tolstoy
True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd; Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That… — Alexander Pope
Accentuated plainness and accentuated vice ought to bring about harmony. Beauty lies in harmony, in style, whether it be the harmony of ugliness or beauty,… — Yevgeny Zamyatin
Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires. — Laozi

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