A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward.
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.
Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship and I shall show you two old or homely faces.
Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation from dating to trial by jury.
My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda they all had dark hair. The only one I found was Van Johnson who wasn't too cool. He was a nice homely American boy. So I created my own image. It worked.