Ornament Quotes
117 Ornament quotes by 92 unique authors
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We tend to treat our knowledge as personal property to be protected and defended. It is an ornament that allows us to rise in the…
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse.
— Anzia Yezierska
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On the meeting point of two worlds, the ornament of Turkish homeland, the treasure of Turkish history, the city cherished by the Turkish nation, İstanbul,…
— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
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We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative, and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of the poet. Thus,…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The knowledge of the past times and of the places of the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human mind.
— Leonardo da Vinci
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He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.
— Charles Lamb
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Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon; women at once make it into an…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The first purpose of clothes... was not warmth or decency, but ornament.... Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to clothes. The…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Silence is an ornament for women.
— Sophocles
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Most works are most beautiful without ornament.
— Walt Whitman
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Right on to the New Period vineyard arbors were the centre and chief ornament of all gardens.
— Marie-Luise Gothein
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Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They have replaced, after all, at least in most…
— Henry Anatole Grunwald
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So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament.
— William Shakespeare
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Hypocrisy itself does great honor, or rather justice, to religion, and tacitly acknowledges it to be an ornament to human nature. The hypocrite would not…
— Joseph Addison
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Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.
— Aristotle
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Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.
— Sophocles
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All art is erotic. The first ornament to have been invented, the cross, was of erotic origin. It was the first work of art. A…
— Adolf Loos
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If the bees which seek the liquid oozing from the head of a lust-intoxicated elephant are driven away by the flapping of his ears, then…
— Chanakya
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In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.
— Charles Jencks
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Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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But now sustainability is such a political category that it's getting more and more difficult to think about it in a serious way. Sustainability has…
— Rem Koolhaas
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All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in…
— T.E. Lawrence
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Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I'm invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like a musician who'll…
— Marilyn Monroe
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I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.
— Alanis Morissette
Who Wrote These Ornament Quotes
92 authors contributed a total of 117 Ornament Quotes, led by these top contributors: