Ornament Quotes

117 Ornament quotes by 92 unique authors

I think there is no better way to invite a human being to view their body differently than by inviting them to be an athlete,… — Alanis Morissette
Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth. — Plautus
I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was… — John Ruskin
Modernism, rebelling against the ornament of the 19th century, limited the vocabulary of the designer. Modernism emphasized straight lines, eliminating the expressive S curve. This… — Eva Zeisel
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beautify your tongues, O people, with truthfulness, and adorn your souls with the ornament of honesty. Beware, O people, that ye deal not treacherously with… — BahÃ¡'u'llÃ¡h
to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words...the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.… — Abraham Joshua Heschel
We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
A lady I will be, but a man's accessory, his handbag, no thank you. I will not be someone's ornament. I will not just be… — Deb Caletti
Art thou afeard To be the same in thine own act and valour As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem'st… — William Shakespeare
Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put… — Oscar Wilde
Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way. — Charles Kingsley
Christmas garland and a rock?" he said, a smile in his voice."Why not an ornament?" "Wolves aren't fragile," I told him. "And they're... stubbon and… — Patricia Briggs
There was very little about her face and figure that was in any way remarkable, but it was the sort of face which, when animated… — Susanna Clarke
The ornament of beauty, Shakespeare wrote, is suspect. And he was right. But beauty itself, unadorned and unaffected, is sacred, I think, worthy of our… — Dennis Lehane
A fine thought in fine language is a most precious jewel, and should not be hid away, but be exposed for use and ornament. — Arthur Conan Doyle
So may the outward shows be least themselves: The world is still deceived with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being… — William Shakespeare
In violence there is often the quality of yearning - the yearning for completion. For closure. For that which is absent and would if present… — Peter Straub
I had hardly expected so dolichocephalic a skull or such well-marked supra-orbital development. Would you have any objection to my running my finger along your… — Arthur Conan Doyle
If the next car passed is blue, Violet will be okay, she thought. If it's red, A will do something horrible to her. She heard… — Sara Shepard
I am a pretty, useless ornament who always believed she'd have a man to take care of her. — Virginia C. Andrews
I look for myself but find no one. I belong to the chrysanthemum hour of bright flowers placed in tall vases. I should make an… — Fernando Pessoa
She had a bracelet on one taper arm, which would fall down over her round wrist. Mr. Thornton watched the replacing of this troublesome ornament… — Elizabeth Gaskell
Mannerism is not character, and affectation is the avowed enemy of grace. Every dancer ought to regard his laborious art as a link in the… — August Bournonville
Rhime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to… — John Milton

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