Top 41 Plainest Quotes
#1. Every woman thinks herself attractive; even the plainest is satisfied with the charms she deems that she possesses.
Ovid
#2. The best style of writing, as well as the most forcible, is the plainest.
Horace Greeley
#3. Richard couldn't adorn David's ears with jewels and doubted very much he'd want them. Even the plainest gifts would be attention-grabbing, inappropriate, dangerous. Richard would just have to give his valet the world instead.
K.J. Charles
#4. The thoughts and methods of infinite wisdom, expressed in the plainest of human words, must sometimes remain inscrutible.
Anonymous
#5. This dark December day inspires him to write / the plainest things in the snow, then walk away.
Chard DeNiord
#6. The usefullest truths are plainest; and while we keep to them, our differences cannot rise high.
William Penn
#7. We all feel the riddle of the earth without anyone to point it out. The mystery of life is the plainest part of it. The clouds and curtains of darkness, the confounding vapors, these are the daily weather of this world.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#8. Why should conservationists have a positive interest in ... farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
Wendell Berry
#9. Sometimes the plainest of things conceal the most unimaginable wonders,
Carrie Anne Noble
#10. Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science.
William Jennings Bryan
#11. I had discovered that the plainest house can crown a fantasy or daydream. An open window can be tolerated. So can an open door. But I discovered the value of four walls and a roof. Something about containment that at the same time offers escape.
Lloyd Jones
#12. It is astonishing that so simple a truth should ever have had an adversary; and it is one among a multitude of proofs, how apt a spirit of ill-informed jealousy, or of too great abstraction and refinement is to lead men astray from the plainest paths of reason and conviction.
Alexander Hamilton
#14. One of the plainest truths about both towns and individuals is that they usually don't turn into what we tell them to be, but what they are told they are.
Fredrik Backman
#15. Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception.
George Washington
#16. I was extravagant in the matter of cameras - anything photographic - I had to have the best. But that was to further my work. In most things I have gone along with the plainest - or without.
Edward Weston
#17. They were all beautiful with the blinding beauty that transfigures even the plainest woman when she is utterly protected and utterly loved and is giving back that love a thousandfold.
Margaret Mitchell
#18. Of all the lessons history teaches, this one is the plainest: the person who tries to achieve ends through force is always unscrupulous and is always cruel. We should remember this in an age where morality seems to be disappearing and is being replaced by politics.
Eustace Percy, 1st Baron Percy Of Newcastle
#19. When you doubt between words, use the plainest, the commonest, the most idiomatic. Eschew fine words as you would rouge; love simple ones as you would the native roses on your cheek.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#20. The handholds for hope are there for all of us but are made plainest to those in poverty, for whom survival actually depends on hope in their God.
Wess Stafford
#21. Consciousness of error is, to a certain extent, a consciousness of understanding; and correction of error is the plainest proof of energy and mastery.
Walter Savage Landor
#22. In England, with all due respect, we have some of the plainest actresses in the entire world as our greatest.
Minnie Driver
#23. Put even the plainest woman into a beautiful dress and unconsciously she will try to live up to it.
Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon
#24. Whenever I write anything that sets up controversy its meaning is distorted almost instantly. Even the editorial writers of newspapers seem to be unable to understand the plainest sentence.
H.L. Mencken
#25. He who would reproach an author for obscurity should look into his own mind to see whether it is quite clear there. In the dusk the plainest writing is illegible.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#26. The light of friendship is like light of phosphorus, seen plainest when all around is dark.
Isaiah Crowell
#27. The civilization of a country consists in the quality of life that is lived there, and this quality shows plainest in the things that people choose to talk about when they talk together, and in the way they choose to talk about them.
Albert J. Nock
#28. The plainest print cannot be read through a gold eagle.
Abraham Lincoln
#29. Books are influential in proportion to their obscurity, provided that the obscurity be that of inexpressible Realities. The Bible is the most obscure book in the world. He must be a great fool who thinks he understands the plainest chapter of it.
Coventry Patmore
#30. A witness can be of more value than a policy analyst. An amateur witness, free of conceptual bias, sometimes sees the plainest truth. One should never be blinded by tailoring.
Andrew Solomon
#31. It is always the nearest, plainest and simplest principles that learned men comprehend last.
Elbert Hubbard
#35. Richard Shindell works impressive alchemy with the plainest, most primal American pop melodies.
Glen Hirshberg
#36. The plainest man who pays attention to women, will sometimes succeed as well as the handsomest man who does not.
Charles Caleb Colton
#37. We two make banquets of the plainest fare
In every cup we find the thrill of pleasure ...
For us life always moves with lilting measure
We two, we two, we make our world, our pleasure
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#38. January is my favorite month, when the light is plainest, least colored. And I like the feeling of beginnings.
Anne Truitt
#39. Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.
John Ruskin
#40. DEMETRIUS
... do I not in plainest truth
Tell you, I do not, nor I cannot love you?
HELENA
And even for that do I love you the more.
William Shakespeare
#41. That's how it is: even in the throes of death, man is always on stage. And even 'the plainest' of them, the least exhibitionist, because it's not always the man himself who climbs on stage. If he doesn't do it, someone will put him there. That is his fate as a man.
Milan Kundera
