Decorative Quotes

56 quotes by 50 authors

The magnificent lobby of the Chrysler Building - faced with rare marbles, aglitter with decorative metalwork, and surmounted by a ceiling painted with a totemic… — Martin Filler
To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a… — George Orwell
He said that people who loved [animals] to excess were capable of the worst cruelties toward human beings. He said that dogs were not loyal… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Beloved, we are always in the wrong, Handling so clumsily our stupid lives, Suffering too little or too long, Too careful even in our selfish… — Wystan Hugh Auden
The only purpose of cats is that they constitute mobile decorative objects. — Muriel Barbery
The amazing activity of the cat is delicately balanced by his capacity for relaxation. Every household should contain a cat, not only for decorative and… — William Lyon Phelps
In a way, watching an attractive, potentially dangerous guy play guitar is a little like watching a tiger agree to do tricks for his trainer.… — Merrill Markoe
There is a saying in the Islands. Beware the women of the warrior class, for all they touch is both decorative and deadly.-Yuki — Tamora Pierce
A lot of really big trees had died to make that desk. His mother had probably gnawed them down, used her nails to saw the… — Jennifer Crusie
If you feel your value lies in being merely decorative, I fear that someday you might find yourself believing thatâ€™s all that you really are.… — Louisa May Alcott
There was this enormous burst of sculptural creative juice in the nineteenth century, and all that stuff is just so decorative. Even in pieces cast… — Hugh Hardy
The Frankfurt Museum of Decorative Arts is a handsome building, which takes its cues from the riverside Biedermeier villa next to it, and it is… — Martin Filler
Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation. — Max Ernst
This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and have… — Mark Rothko
I came over here (Hollywood) to act, but it turned out all I had to do was to be high-minded, long suffering, white-gloved and decorative. — Deborah Kerr
Me putting on a flowery shirt and a fancy tie is like decorative toilet paper. — Nikhil Saluja

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