Quotes with plain

  • If you cry "Forward!" you must without fail make plain in what direction to go. Don't you see that if, without doing so, you call out the word to both a mond and revolutionary, they will go in directions precisely opposite?
  • In New York I was always offered the hot, sexy roles. But in L.A. I was offered the plain, dowdy roles. It says a lot about the difference between the coasts.
  • A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably plain.
  • A man may forgive many wrongs, but he cannot easily forgive anyone who makes it plain that his conversation is tedious.
  • All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much.
  • Strictly speaking, there is but one real evil: I mean acute pain. All other complaints are so considerably diminished by time that it is plain the grief is owing to our passion, since the sensation of it vanishes when that is over.
  • Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and abundant today as sexual perversion and they are nowise different from one another.
  • No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.
  • 'Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true.
  • In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.
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  • Oscar Wilde A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably plain.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Carl Sagan Some racists still reject the plain testimony written in the DNA that all the races are not only human but nearly indistinguishable.
    Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (2011) 467
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Brock Lesnar A guy that I was supposed to face - and I think that he was just plain downright scared to get in the ring with me because he was one of those guys that was on top and saw a huge threat in Brock Lesnar at the time - that's 'Stone Cold' Steve Austin.
    Brock Lesnar
    American professional wrestler (1977 - )
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  • Stevie Smith A man may forgive many wrongs, but he cannot easily forgive anyone who makes it plain that his conversation is tedious.
    Stevie Smith
    English poet and novelist (1902 - 1971)
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  • Edgar Saltus A plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm.
    Edgar Saltus
     
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  • Colm Toibin All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much.
    Colm Toibin
    Irish novelist and writer (1955 - )
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  • Anne Hutchinson As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light which makres plain the pathway.
    Anne Hutchinson
    American religious reformer and activist
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my dear, kiss me and be quiet.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Few men are of one plain, decided color; most are mixed, shaded or blended; and vary as much from different situations, as changeable silks do from different lights.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Amelia Earhart Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.
    Amelia Earhart
    American aviation pioneer and author (1897 - 1937)
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  • Judith Guest Geez, if I could get through to you, kiddo, that depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling. Reduction, see? Of all feeling. People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.
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  • Bill Hybels I can write about prayer, you can read about prayer...but sooner or later you have to fall to your knees and just plain pray. Then, and only then, will you begin to operate in the vein of God's miracle-working ways.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Oliver Cromwell 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
    Parliamentarian General, Lord Protector of England (1599 - 1658)
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  • Christina Rossetti I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, ''Where? What?'' and turn away.
    Christina Rossetti
    British poet (1830 - 1894)
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  • Buck Owens I've got a tiger by the tail it's plain to see
    I won't be much when you've got through with me
    Well I'm losing weight and I'm turning mighty pale
    Looks like I've got a tiger by the tail.
    Ive Got A Tiger By The Tail
    Buck Owens
    American musician, singer, songwriter (1929 - 2006)
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  • Anton Chekhov If you cry "Forward!" you must without fail make plain in what direction to go. Don't you see that if, without doing so, you call out the word to both a mond and revolutionary, they will go in directions precisely opposite?
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Anton Chekhov If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Jung Chang If you have love, even plain cold water is sweet.
    Wild Swans (2008) 38
    Jung Chang
    Chinese-born British writer (1952 - )
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