Quotes About Homely

I don't know about you, but I think blankets are the best, especially your own personal blanket.

I'm not a fan of plain white walls and pristine ornaments dotted around; my house needs to feel lived in and protective.

I love the homely atmosphere of Indore and Bhopal. People here are very warm and affectionate.

Great gifts include warm pyjamas, bedsocks, scarves and blankets.

The magical good fortune of attractive personal appearance makes its way almost without effort in the world, breaking down all sorts of walls of disapproval and lack of interest. Even the homely person can attract by personal charm. But deformity cannot even be charming.

History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.

The mind of man has no defense To equal plain, old common sense. This homely virtue don't despise, If you would be happy as well as wise.

Thou unassuming common-place of Nature, with that homely face.

True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love's sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is prose - words in their best order poetry - the best words in their best order.

My religious beliefs are private to me," he began, … and I suppose that yours may be to you. I am going to talk about more homely matters, matters so simple and obvious that it has almost gone out of fashion to talk about them—trite things, as trite as approving of good roads and good weather, or declaring for the American home and the American flag. I believe in my neighbors.32

In contrast to Genesis chapters 2 and 3, where the tone is more intimate, the context more homely, and the centre of attention is on human relationships,

Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely way, there God is hewing out the pillars for His temple.

I discovered that what most people call creepy, scary, and spooky, I call comfy, cozy, and home.

I am not a fancy cook or an ambitious cook. I am a plain old cook.

Plain living and high thinking are no more:The homely beauty of the good old causeIs gone; our peace, our fearful innocence,And pure religion breathing household laws.

Post 9/11, so much has changed in New York that it does not give you that homely feeling which it did before.

He accepts the cigarettes and says, "Cheers, mate." Then, "What's up with your face? I mean you're an ugly bloke, but today you're top-drawer hideous." Charlotte rolls her eyes. "Jesus, Babadook. He doesn't look that bad." "Are you kidding? My dog died when he saw Freddy Krueger and he isn't half as homely as this geezer.

Plain living and high thinking are no more. The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws.

If religion is the opiate of the people, tradition is an even more sinister analgesic, simply because it rarely appears sinister. If religion is a tight band, a throbbing vein, and a needle, tradition is a far homelier concoction: poppy seeds ground into tea; a sweet cocoa drink laced with cocaine; the kind of thing your grandmother might have made.

Indoreans are not only welcoming, but very homely.

At heart, I am a country girl who grew up in Devon.

Normality for me was not a brooding monolith or eerie hummock but a cosy beechwood or a meadow with horses in it or, to my slight embarrassment, the residential streets around town. There you could see into people's back gardens and glimpse their messy kitchens or sitting rooms; I'd walk there incessantly, supping on homely ordinariness.

His sentences are in homely English, and yet there is something Roman in the easy handling of clauses, and something Greek in their ascent from analogy to idea.