Quotes with plain

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  • Lois McMaster Bujold If you make it plain you like people, it's hard for them to resist liking you back.
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    American speculative fiction writer
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  • Bebe Neuwirth 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.
    Bebe Neuwirth
    American actress, singer and dancer (1958 - )
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  • Christopher Fry In our plain defects we already know the brotherhood of man.
    Christopher Fry
    English poet and playwright (1907 - 2005)
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  • Ezra Pound In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Bridgit Mendler In terms of fashion, I love adding a fun scarf to whatever I'm wearing - it's a great way to dress up a plain outfit!
    Bridgit Mendler
    American actress, singer, and songwriter (1992 - )
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  • Edward Dahlberg 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.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • A. E. Housman Into my heart an air that kills
    From yon far country blows:
    What are those blue remembered hills,
    What spires, what farms are those?

    That is the land of lost content,
    I see it shining plain,
    The happy highways where I went
    And cannot come again.
    A Shropshire Lad (1896)
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Robert Browning It is best to be yourself, imperial, plain and true.
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Robert Collier It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Oliver Goldsmith It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Anna Ford Let's face it, there are no plain women on television.
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  • Evelyn Waugh Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
    Evelyn Waugh
    British novelist (1903 - 1966)
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  • Robertson Davies Many a promising career has been wrecked by marrying the wrong sort of woman. The right sort of woman can distinguish between Creative Lassitude and plain shiftlessness.
    Robertson Davies
    Canadian novelist and journalist (1913 - 1995)
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  • Bryant H. McGill Many openly show discontentment with their looks, but few with their intelligence. I, however, assure you there are many more plain minds than faces.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Roy L. Smith More people are troubled by what is plain in Scripture than by what is obscure.
    Roy L. Smith
    American clergyman and author
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  • Barry Ritholtz Never forget this simple truism: Forecasting is marketing, plain and simple.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • John Ruskin No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Nothing astonishes men so much as common-sense and plain dealing.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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