Homely Quote by Margaret Pargeter Download Open image ““Waspish tongues often go with plain faces.”” — Margaret Pargeter ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Homely Plain
“Here is a book of tongues. Take it. (Dark leaves invade the air.) Beware! I now know a language so beautiful and lethal My… — Gwendolyn MacEwen Copy Share Image
“He had the kind of face you wanted to kiss — lips, forehead, cheeks, eyelids, everywhere except his chin. That you wanted to bite.” — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
“Two tongues in their mouths, the one they use to promise and the one they use to lie.” — Dashka Slater Copy Share Image
“I definitely like it--lips and mouths and tongues together. When my tongue runs over my own lips, I can taste her there, and it's… — Shay Savage Copy Share Image
“If only our tongues where made of glass how much more careful we would be when we speak.” — Shaun Shane Copy Share Image
Plain living and high thinking are no more. The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone; our peace, our fearful innocence, And… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
I was a homely kid with freckles that came out every spring and stuck on me till Christmas. — Myrna Loy Copy Share Image
There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of the characters… — Brander Matthews Copy Share Image
Quite the ugliest face I ever saw was that of a woman whom the world called beautiful. Through its silver veil the evil and… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
The pilasters reaching down were adorned with a glistering substance (I know not what) under glass (as it seemed), resembling - a homely fancy,… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
My new city [Seattle] and its hinterland felt deceptively homely. Their similar latitude gave them the angular light and lingering evenings I was used… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
Dear Lord, who made the face of me not all that I would have it be, not really homely, only plain, but strong and… — Ruth Perry Copy Share Image
Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury. If everyday experience hasn't convinced… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
The man who could withstand, with his fellow-men in single line, a charge of cavalry may lose all command of himself on the occurrence… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
Robert Frost says in a piece of homely doggerel that he has hoped wisdom could be not only Attic but Laconic, Boeotian even -… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Because I like that I got an ugly girl's personality. In other words, a homely girl always has to develop that muscle. And I… — Goldie Hawn Copy Share Image
There is not a single homely thing that, looked at from a certain angle, does not become fairy. — Hope Mirrlees Copy Share Image