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In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique. — Charles Jencks
A preacher must have some intelligence to charm the people by his florid style, by his exhilarating system of morality, by the repetition of his… — Jean de la Bruyere
Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity. — Charles Caleb Colton
Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments… — Alexander Pope
The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity. — Mahatma Gandhi
Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one. — Arthur Golden
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
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
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
I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament. — Alanis Morissette
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
Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments. — Munshi Premchand
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
Coordinating there Events and objects with remote events And vanished objects. Making ornaments Of accidents and possibilities. — Vladimir Nabokov
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
...beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments. — Jean Genet
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

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