Top 42 Plain Women Quotes
#1. Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science.
George Eliot
#2. Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.
Oscar Wilde
#3. It is the plain women who know about love; the beautiful women are too busy being fascinating.
Katharine Hepburn
#4. People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.
G.K. Chesterton
#5. Let me hasten to add that I am not at all like Jane Eyre, who must have given hope to so many plain women who tell their stories in the first person, nor have I ever thought of myself as being like her.
Barbara Pym
#6. MRS. ALLONBY. Curious thing, plain women are always jealous of their husbands, beautiful women never are!
LORD ILLINGWORTH. Beautiful women never have time. They are always so occupied in being jealous of other people's husbands.
Oscar Wilde
#7. Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.
Oscar Wilde
#8. I don't mind plain women being puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain.
Oscar Wilde
#9. Let's face it, there are no plain women on television.
Anna Ford
#11. The worst of Bath was the number of its plain women ... He had frequently observed, as he walked, that one handsome face would be followed by thirty, or five-and-thirty frights.
Jane Austen
#12. Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.
Oscar Wilde
#13. "War gives men a plain-and-simple something to do ... Women write diaries in the hope that their words will beckon fate." It's a romantic manifesto.
James Ellroy
#14. All women, from the countess to the cook-maid, are put into high good humor with themselves when a man is taken with them at firstsight. And be they ever so plain, they will find twenty good reasons to defend the judgment of such a man.
Samuel Richardson
#15. Click, clack, click, clack, went their conversation, like so many knitting-needles, purl, plain, purl, plain, achieving a complex pattern of references, cross-references, Christian names, nicknames, and fleeting allusions.
Vita Sackville-West
#16. Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.
Mary Wortley Montagu
#17. There's nothing bad about feminism. We have to help each other, because there's a lot of women in the world who are suffering because the fact is we're not equal. It's as plain as that. It's still a men's world. I don't know. We'll go on with it.
Yoko Ono
#18. Though pedantry denies,
It's plain the Bible means
That Solomon grew wise
While talking with his queens ...
William Butler Yeats
#19. The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.
Oscar Wilde
#20. Ye want to tell the plain truth all your life, woman, and speak straight; otherwise ye get to seeing double.
Christina Stead
#21. Marriage is a matter for common sense."
"But women who have common sense are so curiously plain, father, aren't they? Of course I only speak from heresay?"
"No woman, plain or pretty, has any common sense at all, sir. Common sense is the privilege of our sex.
Oscar Wilde
#22. My son, beware of a plain damsel who charmeth thee, for she needeth much wile, and useth diverse weapons.
Gelett Burgess
#23. Women need to remember that if nature has made them plain, grace can make them beautiful, and if nature has made them beautiful, good deeds can add to their beauty. Grace will make you beautiful and will attract truly godly men to you. Make godliness and inward beauty your priority.
Joshua Harris
#24. Mrs. Erskine struck him as fierce and plain and haughty as one of those straight-backed red-haired girl-women in certain of the watercolors of Winslow Homer.
Joyce Carol Oates
#25. This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it.
[Women Know Everything!]
Dorothy Parker
#26. She was so plain that neither of them could think of her as a rival, so they began dressing her with perfect sincerity, and with the naive and firm conviction women have that dress can make a face pretty.
Leo Tolstoy
#27. There is nothing touches our imagination so much as a beautiful woman in a plain dress.
Joseph Addison
#28. Everyone who knows anything of history also knows that great social revolutions are impossible without the feminine ferment. Social progress may be measured precisely by the social position of the fair sex (plain ones included).
Karl Marx
#29. There are only two kinds of women, the plain and the coloured.
Oscar Wilde
#30. It was unwise to plan too carefully. It took only one great failure to learn that lesson.
Belva Plain
#31. So odd. Most women of his acquaintance relied on physical beauty and charm to mask their less-pleasant traits. This girl did the opposite, hiding everything interesting about herself behind a prim, plain facade.
What other surprises was she concealing?
Tessa Dare
#32. A small gold plain cross was passed down from my grandma to my mom, then to me, and now to my daughter. It is always nice to own something that connects you to the women who made it possible for you to exist.
Liya Kebede
#33. If Beauty is excuse enough for Being, it sure takes Plainness then to feel the real necessity for - Doing.
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
#34. He had heard that women often love plain ordinary men, but he did not believe it, because he judged by himself and he could only love beautiful mysterious exceptional women.
Leo Tolstoy
#35. Women love having a man in the store. She tries on a dress and I tell her to turn around so I can get the full effect. Or she likes a skirt but she thinks maybe the blouse is too plain. So I grab a scarf and drape it around her neck. That personal attention means everything.
M.R. Cornelius
#36. Whether it's repro rights, violence against women, or just plain old vanilla sexism, most issues affecting women have one thing in common - they exist to keep women 'in their place.' To make sure that we're acting 'appropriately,' whatever that means.
Jessica Valenti
#37. Women are hard and proud and stubborn-hearted,
Their heads being turned with praise and flattery;
And that is why their lovers are afraid
To tell them a plain story.
William Butler Yeats
#38. Home may be near, Home may be far - But it is anywhere love And a few plain household treasures are.
Grace Noll Crowell
#39. Gentlemen, be courteous to the old maids, no matter how poor and plain and prim, for the only chivalry worth having is that which is the readiest to to pay deference to the old, protect the feeble, and serve womankind, regardless of rank, age, or color.
Louisa May Alcott
#40. Women? Women are like ... thunderstorms. They're beautiful to look at, and sometimes they're nice to listen to-but most of the time they're just plain inconvenient.
Brandon Sanderson
#41. It never ceased to astound me the people who found themselves on the
streets, homeless, abused. A fucked up life was not discriminatory. Young, old, rich, poor, plain or beautiful, bad shit could happen to anyone. I hated that my world was full of women who had been harmed by men.
Kirsty Dallas
#42. To speak but little becomes a woman; and she is best adorned who is in plain attire.
Democritus
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