Top 113 Homely Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on April 14, 2025.
Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely way, there God is hewing out the pillars for His temple.
Sometimes, homely things are done for the best reasons in the world and thus achieve a beauty of their own.
Vultures are homely, but they clean up all the garbage and that's good. And they're elegant in the sky.
Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.
I believe in my cosmetics line. There are plenty of charities for the homeless. Isn't it time someone helped the homely?
Indoreans are not only welcoming, but very homely.
Behold a silly tender babe,In freezing winter night,In homely manger trembling lies;Alas! a piteous sight.
History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
We assume that good-looking people are smarter and more effective than they really are, and that homely people are the reverse.
Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.
I have always played the homely girl who's clad in traditional attires which is why I get a lot of saree and jewelry brand endorsements.
A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.
Even though I am an actor, by nature I am what you could call a homely girl.
Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury. If everyday experience hasn't convinced you of this, there's research that will.
In a few hours one could cover that incalculable distance; from the winter country and homely neighbours, to the city where the air trembled like a tuning-fork with unimaginable possibilities.
I was horny, but I was innocent 'cause I was a real-late bloomer and not particularly attractive. In fact, homely.
My themes will not be far-fetched. I will tell of homely every-day phenomena and adventures.
The off-screen Priyanshu is a homely person who likes to read, workout, watch films, meet friends and family. He is quite nice and I like him.
If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.
I love the homely atmosphere of Indore and Bhopal. People here are very warm and affectionate.
I look at my homely sketch. It doesn't need anything. Even through the river in my eyes I can see that. It isn't perfect and that makes it just right.
I 'd rather be handsome than homely; I 'd rather be youthful than old; If I can't have a bushel of silver I'll do with a barrel of gold.
Thou unassuming common-place of Nature, with that homely face.
The homely beauty of the good old cause
Is gone
There is a charm, even for homely things, in perfect maintenance.
A homely woman is one of the most comely of apes.
The mind of man has no defense To equal plain, old common sense. This homely virtue don't despise, If you would be happy as well as wise.
It is a high distinction for a homely woman to be loved for her character rather than for beauty.
It's very homely, this castle. It doesn't have huge ballrooms. I didn't want a cold, cavernous place.
Sienna shrugged, apparently unconcerned by what the warrior had said. "You'll have to forgive me for now noticing you back then. Next to him, you're kind of homely." William chocked on his own tongue.
Keep clear of courts: a homely life transcends The vaunted bliss of monarchs and their friends.
I was a homely kid with freckles that came out every spring and stuck on me till Christmas.
What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty; if you only have a sensibility to beauty?
After the release of movies like 'Chidambarathil Oru Appasamy' and 'Amirtham,' I was branded as an actress who can do only homely roles.
In 'Aarathu Sinam', I play a wife and mother. It's a very homely character, quite contrary to what I've done so far.
Only sound common sense, respectable fellow that he is, in the homely realm of his own four walls, has very wonderful adventures directly he ventures out into the wide world of research.
Much prior to my marriage, I loved donning homely-girl roles and perhaps now I can tread taking up best of that sort.
I'm gregarious with writers and never with manuscripts . . . I [like to] create the illusion of seamless perfection, so I alone know the flawed homely process along the way.
He willeth to be perceived; and His appearing shall be swiftly sudden; and He willeth to be trusted. For He is full gracious and homely: Blessed may He be!
I have a very spartan flat in London, and when they see it people say: 'Why don't you make it more homely?' The reason is that it's just a place to sleep when I'm working.
Our language, once homely and colloquial, seeks to aggrandize our meanest activities with polysyllabic terms or it retreats from frankness into a stammering verbosity.
In the winter, my failsafe dinner party menu has to be my roast chicken or a creamy fish pie with mashed potatoes on top, followed by something like a tarte tatin. My cooking style is quite homely.
Faith is a homely, private capital; as there are public savings-banks and poor funds, out of which in times of want we can relieve the necessities of individuals, so here the faithful take their coin in peace.
I love candles and creating a homely space.
Let thy maid servant be faithful, strong, and homely.
Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.
What on earth are you wearing? Did you take orders in a convent since we spoke last? Little Sisters of the Drab and Homely.
I'm too homely for a prima donna and too ugly for a soubrette.
True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love's sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.
There is not a single homely thing that, looked at from a certain angle, does not become fairy.
The sentiment of virtue is a reverence and delight in the presence of certain divine laws. It perceives that this homely game of life we play, covers, under what seem foolish details, principles that astonish.
If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.
Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.
Post 9/11, so much has changed in New York that it does not give you that homely feeling which it did before.
Marriage, from love, like vinegar from wine-- A sad, sour sober beverage--by time Is sharpened from its high celestial flavor Down to a very homely household savor.
Homely truth is unpalatable.
I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
There is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel, that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.
There's nothing quite like sitting watching the telly on a Saturday night. It has such a nice, homely feel.
L.A. can be a little bit daunting. It is great, but it is a very cutthroat area and industry to be in, so London feels a bit more homely for me.
