Quotes About Plainness

Bluntness is a virtue.

Mamà believed in loyalty above all, even at the cost of self-denial. She also believed it was always best to tell the truth, to tell it plainly, without fanfare, and the more disagreeable the truth, the sooner you had to tell it.

Accentuated plainness and accentuated vice ought to bring about harmony. Beauty lies in harmony, in style, whether it be the harmony of ugliness or beauty, vice or virtue.

Obscurity in writing is commonly an argument of darkness in the mind. The greatest learning is to be seen in the greatest plainness.

I don't really have any gimmicks. I don't actually do anything that's strange. I don't even wear weird things.

It is precisely our job as Catholics to speak the truth as plainly and precisely as we can.

it seemed to him that he felt one pair of eyes in particular, someone staring not at Moiraine and Loial, but at him. He picked her out immediately. For one thing, she stood apart from the others, and for another she was the only woman in the room not wearing at least a little lace. Her dark gray, almost black, dress was as plain as the ship captains' clothes, with wide sleeves and narrow skirts, and never a frill or stitch of fancy-work.

She spoke out, with plainness and directness. When you had to deal a mortal blow, why try to lighten it?

it is God himself, the Lord and Creator of all things, who is so small here, who is hidden here in the corner, who enters into the plainness of the world, who meets us in the helplessness and defenselessness of a child, and wants to be with us.

If I, the boiling water, And you, the tea; Then your fragrance Has to depend solely upon my plainness.... I have to be hot, even boiled Before we consume each other....

What we lack in subtlety, we make up for with a lack of subtlety.

It is well to be simple once in a while.

I am not a diplomatic person.

In spite of her plainness that would have made wallflowers of other women, she radiated a great sense of self-importance.

The truth is, the science of Nature has been already too long made only a work of the brain and the fancy: It is now high time that it should return to the plainness and soundness of observations on material and obvious things.

I'm not much to talk about. What you see is what you get.

Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.

You don't mince words." "Just garlic.

So to me, fat just seems to be right to the point and the most descriptive way to say it.

never overlook the power of simplicity

I have this propensity to just come out and say things. That's how I am in real life.

I hate the guts of English grammar. … The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity…. You can say anything that comes into your head; never forget that.

He has the merit—if it is one—of saying exactly what he means.

Whatever I feel, I say frankly.