Famous quotes containing the words plain and/or speaker:
“They say its worse to be ugly. I think it must only be different. If youre pretty, you are subject to one set of assaults; if youre plain you are subject to another.”
—Alix Kates Shulman (b. 1932)
“Good as is discourse, silence is better, and shames it. The length of the discourse indicates the distance of thought betwixt the speaker and the hearer. If they were at a perfect understanding in any part, no words would be necessary thereon. If at one in all parts, no words would be suffered.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)