Quotes About Plainness

I speak plainly, I don't beat around the bush, and I'm just genuine.

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

Simplicity is always a virtue.

Why was "plain" a euphemism for "ugly," when the very hallmark of human beauty was its plainness, the symmetry and simplicity that always seemed so young and so innocent. It was impossible not to think that here beauty was one of the most important things about her - something having to do with who she really was.

For God's sake, is there no plain man?

Twat is twat and that is that.

What could two men, so different from each other, see in this brown patch, as Mary called hereself? It was certainly not her plainness that attracted them (and let all plain young ladies be warned against the dangerous encouragement given them by Society to confinde in their want of beauty)

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty; it is apt either to feign amiability, or not feigning it, to show all the repulsiveness of discontent.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty;

I'm not good at throwing around rhetoric.

Pshaw, my dear boy! it was simplicity itself.

Sometimes things are just what they seem to be and that's all there is to it.

We regard it as an infallible principle that great sweetness of disposition united in a woman with plainness that is not repulsive, form two indubitable elements of success in securing the greatest possible happiness to the home.

I'm not hip, I'm not cool, I'm not glib.

There is no wisdom like frankness.

Be brutally honest and straightforward. I

Plainness was not necessarily simplicity," Frank Lloyd Wright cautioned. "Elimination, therefore, may be just as meaningless as elaboration, perhaps more often is so. To know what to leave out and what to put in; just where and just how, ah, that is to have been educated in knowledge of simplicity." My

To be simple is no small matter.

In simplicity there is truth.

The language of truth is unadorned and always simple.

Truth is always straightforward.

Too much truth Is uncouth.

Just shooting you straight, Josie.

I'm actually a very simple person. A very normal man.