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Knavery's plain face is never seen till used.
— William Shakespeare
I'm neither plain nor pretty. I'm irrevocably average.
— Jill Alexander Essbaum
In terms of fashion, I love adding a fun scarf to whatever I'm wearing - it's a great way to dress up a plain outfit!
— Bridgit Mendler
My manner of living is plain and I do not mean to be put out of it. A glass of wine and a bit of mutton are always ready.
— George Washington
Asking a Southern woman for plain hospitality was like winking at a leprechaun: She had to give up her pot of gold no matter what.
— Walter Mosley
There is little to be gained by seeking after the mysteries, for there is hardly time in a lifetime to master the plain and precious things.
— Boyd K. Packer
There is no such thing as gratitude unexpressed. If it is unexpressed, it is plain, old-fashioned ingratitude.
— Robert Brault
In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger.
— Maurice Sendak
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
All this time it had been quite plain to Hare that the others knew nothing about Spectacles.
— Jethro Tull
A traveller, lost on a desert plain, feels that the recognition of one star, the Pole star, is of itself a great acquisition.
— Maria Mitchell
If you are poor, avoid wine as a costly luxury; if you are rich, shun it as a fatal indulgence. Stick to plain water.
— Herman Melville
There's optimistic, and then there's plain crazy.
— Tana French
Sir Joshua Reynolds, said Jonathan, once alluded to 'common observation and a plain understanding' as the source of all art.
— Charles Williams
She was clearly rich. Her handbag was too plain to be anything but incredibly expensive.
— Gillian Flynn
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— Dianne Christner
Waspish tongues often go with plain faces.
— Margaret Pargeter
Noam Chomsky skittles and skithers all over the political landscape to distract the reader's attention from the plain truth.
— Sidney Hook
Tell him what? Kat's a raging nymphomaniac. (Kytara)Tara! (Kat)
Oh, all right. She's so bland she makes plain toast look spicy. (Kytara) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
This will involve audacity, clarity and plain speaking; trying to straighten my accounts with the world.
— Oliver Sacks
Utopia has a way of hiding in plain sight.
— David Hopper
You may uncover more and, eventually, what seems altogether a mystery to us now may unfold and become plain.
— Isaac Asimov
No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.
— John Ruskin
I don't have many heroes. Very plain and simply, Johnny Unitas was one of my heroes. When you think of Baltimore, you think of Johnny Unitas.
— Ozzie Newsome
The Admiralty said it was a plane and not a boat, the Royal Air Force said it was a boat and not a plane, the Army were plain not interested.
— Christopher Cockerell
The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.
— Harry Browne
People have many theories about comedy, but being just plain funny is the one most important thing.
— Gilbert Gottfried
I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
You know, Granna, going around saying how you don't watch TV... It's not even pretentious anymore... it's just plain out of it.
— Donald Margulies
It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.
— Anthony Doerr
The only time you're calm, you're centered, you're at peace, is when someone's trying to kill you. And that's just plain twisted.
— Lisa Gardner
We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
It's no disgrace to be a private, you know. Socrates was a plain foot soldier, a hoplite.
— Saul Bellow
The plain truth, I may as well admit it, is that I've never been really right in the head.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him.
— Emma Donoghue
Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.
— Twyla Tharp
To be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is plain idiocy.
— Winston Churchill
It is plain that we were meant to go together.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
Over the vast plain I wander, observing a thousand strange and incredible and terrifying manifestations of the Bootstrap-lifting impulse.
— Upton Sinclair
Ill is the very word to speak, for none Can ransom or atone For blood once shed and darkening the plain.
— Aeschylus
Mental cruelty, nondisfiguring physical abuse or just plain unhappiness are rarely considered grounds on which a woman can seek divorce.
— Geraldine Brooks
Washington has a tendency to hold other powers to standards that it routinely flaunts - plain and simple.
— Thomas P.M. Barnett
When we begin from a place of belief, no matter how small or insubstantial, we can see what was always there, hidden in plain sight.
— Christie Purifoy
I'm gonna be blunt and plain, if one ever looks at me like that I'm gonna kill him and tell God he died.
— Jimmy Swaggart
Last days, last things, loom on: I write / to astonish myself. So much for all / plain speaking...
— Geoffrey Hill
If Beauty is excuse enough for Being, it sure takes Plainness then to feel the real necessity for - Doing.
— Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
The Source is plain for all to see, but not with the eyes of the mind, for they are blinded to Truth.
— Martin Cosgrove
She explained that 'diamond friends' were better than plain old 'best friends' because diamonds were not only rare, they were forever.
— Melanie Shawn
You get lazy, you get sad. Start givin' up. Plain and simple.
— James Dashner
There are no tricks in plain and simple faith.
— William Shakespeare
Trust the comfy clothes you reach for day after day, your plain, regular, essential self.
— Heather Sellers
I wanna be the best, simple and plain
— Kobe Bryant
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— Howard Schultz
I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes.
— Thomas Paine
Anchor your faith in the plain and simple truths of the gospel.
— Gerald Causse
The hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vain If learning's altar vanish from the plain.
— William Ellery Channing
When awful darkness and silence reign Over the great Gromboolian plain, Through the long, long wintry nights;
— Edward Lear
On the stone that remains carved next to his name, his epitaph plain, only a pawn in their game.
— Bob Dylan
Nyx had to admit she had a soft spot for plain folks. There was something to be said for finding beauty in the rough.
— Kameron Hurley
I like plain old you.
— Kyra Dune
Angeles in the plain-clothes division,
— Erle Stanley Gardner
Fear was there, too, cold and hot at the same time, making everything in the plain room sharper, with fewer shadows.
— Allison Brennan
The attitude of kindness is everyday stuff like a great pair of sneakers. Not frilly. Not fancy. Just plain and comfortable.
— Barbara Johnson
It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
— Gertrude Stein
In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.
— Michel De Montaigne
That's why every doctor on TV is a drug addict, a sociopath, or just plain mega-rude. Doctors can do anything they want!
— Mindy Kaling
The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer's life is well charted.
— Arabella Weir
If I walked in on two of my clones having sex, I'd think it was gay, incestuous, and just plain rude to have not invited me.
— Jarod Kintz
There is the plain fool who does the wrong thing at all times anywhere, but there is the Wall Street fool who thinks he must trade all the time.
— Jesse Lauriston Livermore
To simplify complications is the first essential of success.
— George Earle Buckle
A man may forgive many wrongs, but he cannot easily forgive anyone who makes it plain that his conversation is tedious.
— Stevie Smith
She had trouble keeping her mouth shut when she didn't agree with someone or felt they were just plain stupid.
— Sierra Hill
The state within a state is hiding mostly in plain sight,
— Mike Lofgren
The dances ended, all the fairy train For pinks and daisies search'd the flow'ry plain.
— Alexander Pope
The plain fact is that there are no conclusions.
— James Jeans
There are people in Congress who aren't very bright. In fact, some of them are just plain brain-dead.
— Neal Boortz
No redheads, though, are plain.
— Marion Roach
Light as feathers the witches fly,The horn of the moon is plain to see;
By a firefly under a jonquil flower
A goblin toasts a bumble-bee. — Katherine Mansfield
Plain girls who were also clever were a ha'pence a dozen.
— Julie Anne Long