If Beauty is excuse enough for Being, it sure takes Plainness then to feel the real necessity for—Doing.
Eleanor Hallowell AbbottTags: women beauty doing being plain
Let me hasten to add that I am not at all like Jane Eyre, who must have given hope to so many plain women who tell their stories in the first person, nor have I ever thought of myself as being like her.
Barbara PymTags: plain
Waspish tongues often go with plain faces.
Margaret PargeterWhat a situation!' cried Miss Squeers; '...What is the reason that men fall in love with me, whether I like it or not, and desert their chosen intendeds for my sake?'
'Because they can't help it, miss,' replied the girl; 'the reason's plain.' (If Miss Squeers were the reason, it was very plain.)
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He hoped she might make some amends for the many very plain faces he was continually passing in the streets. The worst of Bath was the number of its plain women. He did not mean to say there were not pretty women, but the number of the plain was out of all proportion. He had frequently observed, as he walked, that one handsome face would be followed by thirty, or five-and-thirty frights; and once, as he had stood in a shop on Bond street, he had counted eighty-seven women go by, without there being a tolerable face among them. ... But still, there certainly were a dreadful multitude of ugly women in Bath; and as for the men! they were infinitely worse. Such scarecrows as the streets were full of!
Jane AustenFlying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.
Amelia EarhartTags: life inspirational flight flying fun worth challenges sailing price airplane plain
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