Quotes About Plain

O, learn to love, the lesson is but plain, And once made perfect, never lost again.

Be plain, good son, and homely in thy drift; Riddling confession finds but riddling shrift.

Hogwash!" he exclaimed. "Christianity is finished and done with. Don't you know that, Reverend? And don't you realize further that it was the message contained in Holy Scripture that was the cause, the prime mover, of this entire miserable catastrophe? Don't you see the plain ordinary evil of your dad-burned Bible?

of the pass guarding the approach. Accordingly they halted a day in the plain; but next day came a messenger informing them that Syenesis had left the pass;

A plain is what a mountain aims to be: the closest you can come to being in outer space while yet having your feet on this planet.

Reginald's plain exterior gives no idea of the elaborate, useless nature of his mind, with its little shelves and niches for scruples and doubts.

At last is Hector stretch'd upon the plain,Who fear'd no vengeance for Patroclus slainThen, Prince You should have fear'd, what now you feelAchilles absent was Achilles stillYet a short space the great avenger stayed,Then low in dust thy strength and glory laid.

I'm such a fitness freak that I eat so plain, it's gross. I have oatmeal in the morning and then I have chicken breasts and vegetables and spinach shakes.

Lack of panache, I silently corrected him. "I don't know how you'd describe it, but there's earnestness about you, Mona. There's nothing frivolous about you." They call it boring. Insipid. Vacuous. Dry. Dull. Plain. Vanilla minus the vanilla flavor. But thanks for trying to make it sound like an attribute. Now I feel as though I should schedule an appointment with a cosmetic surgeon for both a facelift and a personality implant.

Lie down among the pines for a while, then get to plain pure white love-work ... to help humanity and other mortals and the Lord.

I've always been a bit of a decorator. I think if I wasn't a singer I'd probably be in stage setting or interior design or something. I like clutter and I'm quite visually greedy. I can't have things to be plain; I have to have things looking interesting... maybe I'm just a frustrated interior designer stuck in a singing career.

I didn't want 'Mudbound' to feel stylized in any way.

If the God of Christianity exists, the evidence for His existence is abundant and plain so that it is both unscientific and sinful not to believe in Him.

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.

Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.

An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.

His massive, plain, blunt presence was enough to calm them.

You are a miserable excuse for a boyfriend! You are, like, the safety school of boyfriends. You are the beige of boyfriends. You are the plain yogurt of boyfriends.

He used a minimum of words and no inflection whatsoever. It was a policeman's manner of speaking, direct and unadorned.

Just. Plain. [Fu*king.] Grilled. Swordfish.

No plain not followed by a slope. No going not followed by a return. He who remains persevering in danger is without blame. Do not complain about this truth Enjoy the good fortune you still possess.

I wish more people would belabor the obvious, and more often.

Misogyny - and racism - are 'hidden in plain sight,' and the burden of eliminating them should fall on the institutions, not the victims.

Seville is a tower full of fine archers.... Under the arch of the sky, across the clear plain, she shoots the constant arrow of her river.