Quotes About Plainness

The breakfast-service on the table was equally costly and equally plain; the apparent object had been to spend money without obtaining brilliancy or splendour.

No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.

What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men.

I can talk to execs very clearly, very plainly. I don't get nervous in front of them anymore.

I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort

favored on her visits. Up close, it was plain

She was one of those women who seemed to choose solitude and plainness over beauty, and anger over happiness.

Kurnazl??a yak?n her ?ey basitliktir.

I'm a straightforward person. I like to be direct with people.

In America, people are just so straightforward when they dislike things.

I'm just straightforward.

I am a straightforward man.

Lots of people tell me I am straightforward.

It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delivered.

I was as limpid as dammit.

My lord, will you be true? Who, I? Alas, it is my vice, my fault: Whiles others fish with craft for great opinion, I with great truth catch mere simplicity; Whilst some with cunning gild their copper crowns, With truth and plainness I do wear mine bare. Fear not my truth: the moral of my wit Is plain and true; there's all the reach of it.

I generally find subtlety a waste of time.

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

I have no affectation when I speak.

I've never been a fan of euphemism.

If I don't like a thing, I will say it out loud then and there.

I was so haunted and stirred even by her plainness suggested – ominously – a love more binding than physical affection, some tar-pit of the soul where I might flop around and malinger for years.

But any idea of plainness is simply contrary to the fancy color that is red.

In general, simple is better than complex, explicit is better than implicit, and full statements are better than arcane expressions.