Famous quotes containing the words plain and/or speaker:
“When love begins to sicken and decay
It useth an enforcèd ceremony.
There are no tricks in plain and simple faith.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“For, though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency, because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer. The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)