Homely Quotes

To be homely and unable to sing. - Tara Slone

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

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces. - Austin O'Malley

Plain living and high thinking are no more:
The homely beauty of the good old cause
Is gone. - William Wordsworth

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

O God! methinks it were a happy life,
To be no better than a homely swain;
To sit upon a hill, as I do now,
To carve out dials quaintly, point by point,
Thereby to see the minutes how they run,
How many make the hour full complete;
How many hours bring about the day;
How many days will finish up the year;
How many years a mortal man may live. - William Shakespeare

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

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