SIMPLICITY QUOTES IV

quotations about simplicity

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

COCO CHANEL

interview, Harper's Bazaar, 1923

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Simplicity is sometimes sexier in its naked honesty. But simplicity isn't simple. It demands great ingredients and on-point technique.

MIA STAINSBY

"Oddfish goes for simple and delicious", The Province, August 30, 2017


Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.

GEORGE MEREDITH

The Ordeal of Richard Feverel

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Without [simplicity] no human performance can arrive at perfection.

JONATHAN SWIFT

The works of Jonathan Swift

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The greatest things are those which gain the most by being said most simply, since thus they show themselves for what they are: you do not throw over them the veil, however transparent, of beautiful discourse, nor that shadow so fatal to truth, called the writer's vanity.

CHARLES WAGNER

The Simple Life


The greatest ideas are the simplest.

WILLIAM GOLDING

Lord of the Flies

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Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Literary Ethics

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Therefore I say once more, cast your eyes upon paper, and ready only such letters as I write, which convey no darts, no flames, but proceed from innocence of soul, and simplicity of heart.

ALEXANDER POPE

letter to Mrs. ***, The Works of Alexander Pope

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Simplicity is often the cloak of evil as well as the robe of virtue.

LEWIS MORRIS

attributed, Day's Collacon


I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all encumbrances, and reduces it to its simplest terms. So simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real. Probe the earth to see where your main roots run.

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

letter to Mr. B., March 27, 1848

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For it is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

AMELIA E. BARR

All the Days of My Life

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In stillness and simplicity
In the silence of the heart I see
The mystery of eternity
Who lives in side of me.

MICHAEL CARD

"In Stillness and Simplicity"


Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.

FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN

attributed, Chopin: An Introduction to His Piano Works


out
of the night comes
a timeless thing
calm
in simplicity
soft
a seductive voice
meant for the human ear
down
down
down
i'm gonna take you
down

DANZIG

"When the Dying Calls"


It always amazes me how the most simple things are the ones to make us the happiest.

GAL GADOT

Instagram post, June 17, 2017


He alone is a man who can resist the genius of the age, the tone of fashion, with vigorous simplicity and modest courage.

JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER

Aphorisms on Man

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Simplicity and purity are the two wings with which man soars above earth and all temporary nature.

THOMAS À KEMPIS

The Imitation of Christ

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True simplicity regards God alone; it has its eye fixed upon Him, and is not drawn toward self; and it is as pleased to say humble as great things.

MADAME GUYON

attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers


Live with simplicity, if you would live well; bread with hunger makes a feast.

EPICURUS

attributed, Day's Collacon


God would behold in you a simplicity which will contain so much the more of His wisdom as it contains less of your own.

FRANÇOIS FÉNELON

attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers