SIMPLICITY

Related Subjects: Brevity, Credulity, Innocence

1. This seemed as simple as running water; but simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.—HENRY ADAMS, The Education of Henry Adams
   

2. Lost is our simplicity of times,
   The world abounds with laws, and teems with crimes.Anonymous
   

3. Elementary, my dear Watson.—CONAN DOYLE, The Crooked Man
   

4. Oh, what a power has white Simplicity!—KEATS
   

5. Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intellect.—JOHN MORLEY, Life of Gladstone
   

6. Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.—PLATO, The Republic
   

7. Simplicity is the Mean between Ostentation and Rusticity.—POPE, Preface to Iliad

8. Simplicity is an exact medium between too little and too much.—SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS
   

9. To see a thing and tell it in plain words is the greatest thing a soul can do.—RUSKIN
   

10. Great floods have flown
    From simple sources.—SHAKESPEARE, All's Well that Ends Well
    

11. Our life is frittered away by detail. . . . Simplify, simplify.—THOREAU, Walden