Quotes About Simplicity

I love writing openings, and I think that can give me the key to the movie. So somehow, that can be the easiest part, to be honest.

It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delivered.

The great things of life are what they seem to be, and for that reason, strange as it may sound to you, are often difficult to interpret. But the little things of life are symbols. We receive our bitter lessons most easily through them.

Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.

Tea is the only simple pleasure left to us.

Details are always vulgar

We all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.

What a laugh she had!--just like a thrush singing. And how pretty she had been in her cotton dresses and her large hats! She knew nothing, but she had everything that he had lost.

He was like a common gardener walking with a rose.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. 

It is pure unadulterated country life. They get up early because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.

I adore simple pleasures," said Lord Henry. "They are the last refuge of the complex. But I don't like scenes, except on the stage.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility.

I have a strange longing for the great simple primeval things, such as the sea, to me no less of a mother than the Earth. It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.  Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility! Jack.  That wouldn't be at all a bad thing. Algernon.  Literary criticism is not your forte, my dear fellow.  Don't try it.  You should leave that to people who haven't been at a University.  They do it so well in the daily papers. 

the serious study of the great aristocratic art of doing absolutely nothing.

Yo adoro los placeres sencillos. Son el último refugio de los hombres complicados.

I love my poor earth because I have seen no other.

Nebylo tu nic poÃ…â"¢ádného k snÄ›dku, bylo to jenom velké akvárium, jehož stÄ›ny tvoÃ…â"¢ily místo sklenÄ›ných tabulí ze dvou stran bÃ…â"¢ehy, dole písek, a nahoÃ…â"¢e nebe. A kolem dokola kvetly pomnÄ›nky a Ã…â"¢íkali vzpomínej.

When I felt better, I tried to remember what had been beautiful in my life. I did not think about love or how I had wandered all over the world. I did not think about night flights across the ocean or how I played Canadian hockey in Prague. I remembered walking along the brooks, rivers, ponds, and dams to fish. I realized that these were the most beautiful experiences in my life.

To live well is to live unnoticed. Bene qui latuit bene dixit.

Love is a child and naked; he has years that know no meanness, and he has no clothes, so that he is open in his ways.

Ah, me, she sighed. If marriage were as simple as love!

As life goes on, don't you find that all you need is about two real friends, a regular supply of books, and a Peke?