Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty…

Love in modern times has been the tailor's best friend. Every suitor of the nineteenth century spends more than his spare cash on personal…

— George Augustus Henry Sala

The member of a culture ... purposely avoids the relationship of intimacy; he wants the object somehow depicted and fictionalized. ... He is embarrassed…

— Richard M. Weaver

A crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much.

— Lloyd Alexander

There's more to clothing than just adornment. It does more than merely change how the world perceives us. It changes how we perceive ourselves.

— Jacqueline Carey

Personal adornment is the only cultural form that everybody in the world takes part in.

— A. A. Gill

Tis Lilith. Who? Adam's first wife is she. Beware the lure within her lovely tresses, The splendid sole adornment of her hair; When she…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Valor is the soldier's adornment.

— Livy

It's a toss-up whether the scenery or the adornment of Marilyn Monroe is the feature of greater attraction in River of No Return. The…

— Bosley Crowther

By the care she lavishes on her toilet, by the concern she has for her beauty set off by her adornment, a woman regards…

— Georges Bataille

Such is our impatience, such our hatred of procrastination, to everything but the amendment of our practices and the adornment of our nature, one…

— Walter Savage Landor

Beyond domestic animals and our response to their fealty and affection, we have a peculiar charge concerning the wild animals which supply our clothes,…

— S. Parkes Cadman

But the best argument of all [for evangelism] is to be found in the wounds of Jesus. You want to honor Him, you desire…

— Charles Spurgeon

Where fashion in clothes, bodily adornment, and music are concerned, it is the underclass that increasingly sets the pace. Never before has there been…

— Anthony Daniels

Positions and titles mean absolutely nothing. They're just adornments; they don't represent the substance of anybody. Every person and every job is worth as…

— Herb Kelleher

Parents and leaders should give early help to the blase girl who is often overpainted and underdressed. She is the picture of an unhappy…

— Mark E. Petersen