Quotes about Plainness
No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.
- William Law
Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty.
- George Eliot
To be simple is the best thing in the world.
- GK Chesterton
I don't like names that are clever or made-up sounding.
- Lydia Millet
Pshaw, my dear boy! it was simplicity itself.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
There is no wisdom like frankness.
- Benjamin Disraeli
it is God himself, the Lord and Creator of all things, who is so small here, who is hidden here in the corner, who enters into the plainness of the world, who meets us in the helplessness and defenselessness of a child, and wants to be with us.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.
- William Law