(215 quotes found)
“This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it.”
Dorothy Parker
“When you are describing A shape, or sound, or tint; Don't state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things With a sort of mental squint”
Lewis Carroll
“If you don't scale the mountain, you can't view the plain”
Chinese Proverbs
“It's good to be just plain happy, it's a little better to know that you're happy; but to understand that you're happy and to know why and how and still be happy, be happy in the being and the knowing, well that is beyond happiness, that is bliss.”
Henry Miller
“Mystery is another name for our ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain”
Tryon Edwards
“Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.”
William Penn
“Best be yourself, imperial, plain and true!”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“Look round and round upon this bare bleak plain, and see even here, upon a winter's day, how beautiful the shadows are! Alas! it is the nature of their kind to be so. The loveliest things in life, Tom, are but shadows; and they come and go, and change and fade away, as rapidly as these!”
Charles Dickens
“I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, ''Where? What?'' and turn away.”
Christina G. Rossetti
“Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.”
Christopher Morley
