Home is home, be it never so homely. [ Proverb ]
Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. [ William Shakespeare ]
Our home is still home, be it ever so homely. [ Charles Dibdin ]
Let time that makes you homely make you sage. [ Parnell ]
There is none so homely but loves a looking-glass. [ South ]
I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is,
prose = words in their best order;
poetry = the best words in the best order. [ Coleridge ]
We love handsome women from inclination, homely women from interest, and virtuous women from reason. [ Amelot ]
What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty, if you only have a sensibility to beauty? [ Beecher ]
A homely man of merit is never repulsive: as soon as he is named, his physique is forgotten; the mind passes through it to see the soul. [ Romainville ]
A woman whose great beauty eclipses all others is seen with as many different eyes as there are people who look at her. Pretty women gaze with envy, homely women with spite, old men with regret, young men with transport. [ D'Argens ]
To make much of little, to find reasons of interest in common things, to develop a sensibility to mild enjoyments, to inspire the imagination, to throw a charm upon homely and familiar things, will constitute a man master of his own happiness. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage, and be as ill received, as your person, though ever so well proportioned, would if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters. [ Chesterfield ]