As I search the archives of my memory I seem to discern six types or methods of judicial writing which divide themselves from one another with measurable distinctness. There is the type magisterial or imperative the type laconic or sententious the type conversational or homely the type refined or artificial, smelling of the lamp, verging at times upon preciosity or euphuism the demonstrative or persuasive and finally the type tonsorial or agglutinative, so called from the shears and the pastepot which are its implements and emblem.
Quotes about homely (16 Quotes)
I'm not homely enough to play the nerdy girl and not nearly pretty enough to play the pretty girl.
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.
Getting talked about is one of the penalties for being pretty, while being above suspicion is about the only compensation for being homely.
I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.
Dear Lord, who made the face of me not all that I would have it be, not really homely, only plain, but strong and patient in the main. Yet one, a man apart, who found me fair and gave his heart. Now Lord, that I have grown more sage ... into middle age. I only ask, as face grows lines of countenance, it be described as kind that wrinkles by my eyes will show a little humor as I go that I may view my humble scene with glance of one content, serene, through grateful, shining eyes that see the blessings you have given me.
As the Master Wills Slowly, through all the universe, the temple of God is being built. Wherever, in any world, a soul, by free-willed obedience, catches the fire of Gods likeness, it is set into the growing walls, a living stone. When, in your hard fight, in your tiresome drudgery, or in your terrible temptation, you catch the purpose of your being, and give yourself to God, and so give Him the chance to give Himself to you, your life, a living stone, is taken up and set into that growing wall. Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely waysthere God is hewing out the pillars for His temple. Oh, if the stone can only have some vision of the temple of which it is to be a part forever, what patience must fill it as it feels the blows of the hammer, and knows that success for it is simply to let itself be wrought into what shape the Master wills.
Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.
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.
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.
A thoroughly beautiful woman and a thoroughy homely woman are creations which I love to gaze upon, and which I cannot tire of gazing upon, for each is perfect in her own line.
It's very homely, this castle. It doesn't have huge ballrooms. I didn't want a cold, cavernous place.
A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.
Frodo was now safe in the Last Homely House east of the Sea. That house was, as Bilbo had long ago reported, a perfect house, whether you like food or sleep, or story-telling or singing, or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant mixture of them all. Merely to be there was a cure for weariness, fear and sadness.
Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.