Quotes about Simplicity

I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day.

It seems to me that the most delightful walk of life is to be found in a household of moderate means, to live there with an obliging spouse and to be satisfied with little.

O for the gentleness of old Romance, the simple planning of a minstrel's song!

Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.

I've never done anything because I thought it would look cool.

Like all Holmes's reasoning the thing seemed simplicity itself when it was once explained.

Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.

That is one reason why I did not like the pictures here, dear uncle—which you think me stupid about. I used to come from the village with all that dirt and coarse ugliness like a pain within me, and the simpering pictures in the drawing-room seemed to me like a wicked attempt to find delight in what is false

There, now, father, you won't work in it till it's all easy, said Eppie, and you and me can mark out the beds, and make holes and plant the roots. It'll be a deal livelier at the Stone-pits when we've got some flowers, for I always think the flowers can see us and know what we're talking about. And I'll have a bit o' rosemary, and bergamot, and thyme, because they're so sweet-smelling; but there's no lavender only in the gentlefolks' gardens, I think.

Contented speckled hens, industriously scratching for the rarely-found corn, may sometimes do more for a sick heart than a grove of nightingales; there is something irresistibly calming in the unsentimental cheeriness of top-knotted pullets, unpetted sheep-dogs, and patient cart-horses enjoying a drink of muddy water.

She was not coldly clever and indirectly satirical, but adorably simple and full of feeling.

Brevity is justified at once to those who readily understand, and to those who will never understand.