Famous quotes containing the words plain and/or speaker:
“In the last scene, between death and ourselves, there is no more pretending: we must speak plain French.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“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)