Francis Thompson Quotes

I don't like to make a big splash anyway.

I have never been one for the over-the-top.

Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility.

I'm not much of a show-off.

I don't make big grand gestures, generally.

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

I see no point in talking about myself unnecessarily.

I don't have the habit of wearing ornaments.

I'm understated in my approach.

Everything is soul and flowering.

In thy apparel avoid singularity, profuseness, and gaudiness. Be not too early in the fashion, nor too late. Decency is half way between affectation and neglect. The body is the shell of the soul, apparel is the husk of that shell; the husk often tells you what the kernel is.

A good soul like a good body should be as unobtrusive as possible; in so far as it functions properly, it should not be noticed for good or for ill.

Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be.

Modesty and dew love the shade.

It's my job to try to communicate with as little showiness as possible. I was a really showy actor as a young man.

I don't pretend to anything more than harmony.

What does my soul look like to you?' 'I couldn't reduce it to words if I tried, but its beauty is unsurpassed.

I am quite confident that the most important part of a human being is not his physical body but his nonphysical essence, which some people call soul and others, personality... The nonphysical part cannot die and cannot decay because it's not physical.

Believe that others are better than you in the debths of their soul, although outwardly you may appear better than they.

Aunts are discreet, a little shy / By instinct. They forbear to pry.

Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.

And if the body were not the soul, what is the soul?

Time is the life of the soul.

Essence of humility is unity.

He, full of bashfulness and truth, loved much, hoped little, and desired naught.