Homely Quotes
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Homely Quotes & Sayings
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I'm too homely for a prima donna and too ugly for a soubrette.
— Marie Dressler
My themes will not be far-fetched. I will tell of homely every-day phenomena and adventures.
— Henry David Thoreau
True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love's sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
Vultures are homely, but they clean up all the garbage and that's good. And they're elegant in the sky.
— Roger Tory Peterson
If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.
— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Let thy maid servant be faithful, strong, and homely.
— Benjamin Franklin
There is not a single homely thing that, looked at from a certain angle, does not become fairy.
— Hope Mirrlees
I was a homely kid with freckles that came out every spring and stuck on me till Christmas.
— Myrna Loy
I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
— Anthony Trollope
Thou unassuming common-place of Nature, with that homely face.
— William Wordsworth
Hellaciously Homely.
— Rachel Cohn
It is a high distinction for a homely woman to be loved for her character rather than for beauty.
— Plutarch
The homely beauty of the good old causeIs gone — William Wordsworth
Among his own country folk Confucius wore a homely look, like one that has no word to say.
— Confucius
Sometimes, homely things are done for the best reasons in the world and thus achieve a beauty of their own.
— Gene Weingarten
You come from a long line of homely women, Gracie Snow. Accept the fact that you'll never be pretty and you'll be a lot happie
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Pasture, stone wall, and steeple,What most perturbs the mind:
The heart-rending homely people,
Or the horrible beautiful kind? — Louise Bogan
Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.
— Austin O'Malley
I'm not homely enough to play the nerdy girl and not nearly pretty enough to play the pretty girl.
— Kristen Bell
I 'd rather be handsome than homely; I 'd rather be youthful than old; If I can't have a bushel of silver I'll do with a barrel of gold.
— James Jeffrey Roche
We assume that good-looking people are smarter and more effective than they really are, and that homely people are the reverse.
— James Surowiecki
There is a charm, even for homely things, in perfect maintenance.
— Louis Auchincloss
Waspish tongues often go with plain faces.
— Margaret Pargeter
I love the homely atmosphere of Indore and Bhopal. People here are very warm and affectionate.
— Malaika Arora Khan
What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty; if you only have a sensibility to beauty?
— Henry Ward Beecher
A homely woman is one of the most comely of apes.
— Publilius Syrus
Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely way, there God is hewing out the pillars for His temple.
— Phillips Brooks
The small, homely scar of a smallpox vaccination. Rain
— Diana Gabaldon
Keep clear of courts: a homely life transcends The vaunted bliss of monarchs and their friends.
— Horace
I was horny, but I was innocent 'cause I was a real-late bloomer and not particularly attractive. In fact, homely.
— Patti Smith
Homely truth is unpalatable.
— Mark Twain
I look at my homely sketch. It doesn't need anything. Even through the river in my eyes I can see that. It isn't perfect and that makes it just right.
— Laurie Halse Anderson
I believe in my cosmetics line. There are plenty of charities for the homeless. Isn't it time someone helped the homely?
— Dolly Parton
A mark on one arm like the one I bore. Here, in this time, the mark of sorcery, the mark of a magus. The small, homely scar of a smallpox vaccination.
— Diana Gabaldon
Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.
— William Shakespeare