Homely Quotes

Homely Quote of the day

There is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel, that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.

It is a high distinction for a homely woman to be loved for her character rather than for beauty.

Vultures are homely, but they clean up all the garbage and that's good. And they're elegant in the sky.

I was a homely kid with freckles that came out every spring and stuck on me till Christmas.

Gittin' talked about is one o' th' penalties for bein' purty, while bein' above suspicion is about th' only compensation fer bein' homely.

He willeth to be perceived; and His appearing shall be swiftly sudden; and He willeth to be trusted. For He is full gracious and homely: Blessed may He be!

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.

Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the end it can lift up our eyes beyond the glow in the sunset skies.

There is not a single homely thing that, looked at from a certain angle, does not become fairy.

Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.

A homely woman is one of the most comely of apes.

It's very homely, this castle. It doesn't have huge ballrooms. I didn't want a cold, cavernous place.

Only sound common sense, respectable fellow that he is, in the homely realm of his own four walls, has very wonderful adventures directly he ventures out into the wide world of research.

Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely way, there God is hewing out the pillars for His temple.

Keep clear of courts: a homely life transcends The vaunted bliss of monarchs and their friends.

There is a charm, even for homely things, in perfect maintenance.

I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.

Thou unassuming common-place of Nature, with that homely face.

Post 9/11, so much has changed in New York that it does not give you that homely feeling which it did before.

I'm too homely for a prima donna and too ugly for a soubrette.

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.

I'm not homely enough to play the nerdy girl and not nearly pretty enough to play the pretty girl.

What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty; if you only have a sensibility to beauty?

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.

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.

History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.

Homely truth is unpalatable.

Our language, once homely and colloquial, seeks to aggrandize our meanest activities with polysyllabic terms or it retreats from frankness into a stammering verbosity.

The mind of man has no defense To equal plain, old common sense. This homely virtue don't despise, If you would be happy as well as wise.

Into all our lives, in many simple, familiar, homely ways, God infuses this element of joy from the surprises of life, which unexpectedly brighten our days and fill our eyes with light.

The best defense against the terror of existence are the homely comforts of love, work, and family life, which connect us to a world that is independent of our wishes yet responsive to our needs.

Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.

My themes will not be far-fetched. I will tell of homely every-day phenomena and adventures.

We assume that good-looking people are smarter and more effective than they really are, and that homely people are the reverse.

I believe in my cosmetics line. There are plenty of charities for the homeless. Isn't it time someone helped the homely?

And I like those authors best whose scenes describe my own situation in life-- and the friends who are about me whose stories touch me with interest, from resembling my own homely existence.

Behold a silly tender babe,In freezing winter night,In homely manger trembling lies;Alas! a piteous sight.

I'm gregarious with writers and never with manuscripts . . . I [like to] create the illusion of seamless perfection, so I alone know the flawed homely process along the way.

Marriage, from love, like vinegar from wine-- A sad, sour sober beverage--by time Is sharpened from its high celestial flavor Down to a very homely household savor.

Let thy maid servant be faithful, strong, and homely.

What on earth are you wearing? Did you take orders in a convent since we spoke last? Little Sisters of the Drab and Homely.

In a few hours one could cover that incalculable distance; from the winter country and homely neighbours, to the city where the air trembled like a tuning-fork with unimaginable possibilities.

If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.

Plain living and high thinking are no more. The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone; our peace, our fearful innocence, And pure religion breathing household laws.

The homely beauty of the good old cause Is gone

A homely face does not guarantee a homely character. Appearance is the body, character is the spirit, and the soul bears the most vital qualities.