#homely

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

— Anthony Trollope

#castles #compatible #homely #i #muse

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

— Enya

#castle #cold #homely #huge #i

Getting talked about is one of the penalties for being pretty, while being above suspicion is about the only compensation for being homely. ↗

— Kin Hubbard

#above #being #being pretty #compensation #getting

A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward. ↗

— Minna Antrim

#aided #face #figure #homely #many

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. ↗

— Bruce Catton

#any #beyond #end #express #eyes

My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda, they all had dark hair. The only one I found was Van Johnson, who wasn't too cool. He was a nice, homely American boy. So I created my own image. It worked. ↗

— Michael Caine

#blond #blond hair #boy #cool #created

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. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#clever #definitions #homely #i #i wish

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces. ↗

— Austin O'Malley

#faces #friendship #genuine #homely #i

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#depart #ever #eye #forgive #ghost

Waspish tongues often go with plain faces. ↗

— Margaret Pargeter

#plain #home