Plain Quotes
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Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.
Oscar Wilde
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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
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Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.
Oscar Wilde
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The Constitution isn't written in Chinese, Swahili or Sanskrit. It's in plain English.
Harry Browne
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When you're as plain as I am, you've gotta have a gimmick.
Ralph Hall
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In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
Ezra Pound
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The Book of Mormon offers so much that broadens our understandings of the doctrines of salvation. Without it, much of what is taught in other scriptures would not be nearly so plain and precious.
Ezra Taft Benson
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And at dawn, the drums still beat on the sleepless plain like an unstoppable heart.
Jacques Roumain
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Me, sexy? I'm just plain ol' beans and rice.
Pam Grier
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When things go wrong and will not come right, Though you do the best you can, When life looks black as the hour of night, A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN.
Flann O'Brien
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She was, if anything, on the plain side, at least not the type to attract men wherever she went. But there was something in her face that was meant for me alone. Everytime we met, I took a good look at her. And loved what I saw.
Haruki Murakami
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When money's tight and is hard to get And your horse has also ran, When all you have is a heap of debt A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN.
Flann O'Brien
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There are only two kinds of women, the plain and the coloured.
Oscar Wilde
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That mountains that are now raised up in the imagination of many would become plain, and every difficulty surmounted.
Samuel Hopkins
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I don't like zombie movies, they're just plain silly.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
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Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.
Audrey Hepburn
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I am a plain practical man, not one of your theorists and splitters of hairs and choppers of logic.
James G. Frazer
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It must be plain also that we should not anxiously strive for riches and honors by relying on our own diligence or cleverness or by depending on the favor of men or by trusting in the notion of good luck, but that we should always expect the Lord to direct us to the lot he has provided for us.
John Calvin
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He was just plain Jim. We always called him Jimmy.
Ann Miller
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I am thoroughly sick of pearls. They make one look so plain, so good and so intellectual.
Oscar Wilde
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I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.' I should think so — in these parts! We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with; as if, observes our author himself, any originality but our own could be expected to content us! In fact all strange thing are apt, without fault of theirs, to estrange us at first view, and unhappily scarcely anything is perfectly plain, but what is also perfectly common.
Thomas Carlyle
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Talent isn't enough. You need motivation-and persistence, too: what Steinbeck called a blend of faith and arrogance. When you're young, plain old poverty can be enough, along with an insatiable hunger for recognition. You have to have that feeling of "I'll show them." If you don't have it, don't become a writer.
Leon Uris
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Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do.
Katharine Hepburn