Plain Quotes

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do. (Katharine Hepburn)
I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird. View quote
Uma Thurman
Nothing astonishes people so much as common sense and plain dealing. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms. View quote
Roy Lichtenstein
Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands. View quote
Oscar Wilde
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. View quote
Jean Kerr
Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise. View quote
Maya Angelou
Give me a mystery - just a plain and simple one - a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery - just one! View quote
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive. View quote
Jane Austen
There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language. View quote
William Osler
I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else. (Oliver Cromwell)
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass to their daily affairs and experience to what they have an opportunity to know, and motives to study or practise. The rest is affectation and imposture. View quote
William Hazlitt
Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain Here earth and water seem to strive again, Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But, as the world, harmoniously confused Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree. View quote
Alexander Pope
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one. View quote
John Ruskin
It were Happy if we studied Nature more in natural Things and acted according to Nature whose rules are few, plain and most reasonable. View quote
William Penn
How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! View quote
Samuel Adams
If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
Do not conceive that fine clothes make fine men, any more than fine feathers make fine birds. A plain, genteel dress is more admired, obtains more credit in the eyes of the judicious and sensible. View quote
George Washington
It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them. (Oliver Goldsmith)
Sweet Auburn loveliest village of the plain. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
The Crucifixion and other historical precedents notwithstanding, many of us still believe that outstanding goodness is a kind of armor, that virtue, seen plain and bare, gives pause to criminality. But perhaps it is the other way around. View quote
Mary McCarthy
The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her, if she is pretty, and to someone else, if she is plain. View quote
Oscar Wilde
The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain. View quote
George McGovern