Famous quotes containing the words plain and/or speaker:
“Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“There is a terrible blindness in the love that wants only to accommodate. It’s not only to do with omissions and half-truths. It implants a lack of being in the speaker and robs the self of an identity without which it is impossible for one to grow close to another.”
—Alexander Theroux (b. 1940)