Quotes About Plainness

Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.

I've always liked simplicity.

My plainness of speech makes them hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.

My plainness of speech makes people hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.

And simple truth miscalled simplicity

Speech devoted to truth should be straightforward and plain

The expression of truth is simplicity.

You're simple, straightforward and honest, a little bit on the primitive side, I should think. To interest you a woman would have to... -To lay her cards out on the table.

We're not big on irony in Jamaica, sarcasm and double-talk. We tend to say things plainly, sometimes to the point of boredom.

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!

Greatness always indicates simplicity. Wisdom always results from curiosity.

There is nothing more difficult than simplicity,' Madame

Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty.

Así de sencillo.

The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.

I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.

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

To be simple is the best thing in the world.

"Plain English" - everybody loves it, demands it - from the other fellow.

There is no wisdom like frankness.

Forgive me for being such a straight shooter. Nowadays they say it's being direct, but your mama called it being an asshole.

I'm a plain speaker.

Yeah I've got a mouth on me, but what I do is I give it as I see it.

Free to call a spade a spade (and a cock a cock).