Plainness Quotes
22 quotes by 22 authors
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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
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[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
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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
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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
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Trust a girl of sixteen for knowing well if she is pretty; concerning her plainness she may be ignorant.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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If Beauty is excuse enough for Being, it sure takes Plainness then to feel the real necessity for—Doing.
— Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
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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
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The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity.
— William Strunk, Jr.
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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
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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
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Knaves will thrive when honest plainness knows not how to live.
— James Shirley
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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
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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
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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
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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
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One love, one heart, one destiny.
— Bob Marley
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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
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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
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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
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Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
— Laozi
Who Wrote These Plainness Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 22 Plainness Quotes as follows: