Best Ornaments Lines
148 Ornaments quotes by 124 unique authors
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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
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Think it a vile habit to alter works of good composers, to omit parts of them, or to insert new-fashioned ornaments. This is the greatest…
— Robert Schumann
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To be apt in quotation is a splendid and dangerous gift. Splendid, because it ornaments a man's speech with other men's jewels; dangerous, for the…
— Robertson Davies
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I am a pretty, useless ornament who always believed she'd have a man to take care of her.
— Virginia C. Andrews
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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
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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
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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
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God help us! it is a foolish little thing, this human life, at the best; and it is half ridiculous and half pitiful to see…
— Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey
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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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The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom…
— John Stuart Mill
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Christmas is a box of tree ornaments that have become part of the family.
— Charles M. Schulz
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Fierce Determination and Gentle Humility are the ornaments which make one attractive in the eyes of the Lord.
— Radhanath Swami
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Humility is an ornament which attracts Krishna's heart. Beginning of all knowledge comes from humility.
— Radhanath Swami
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Being half Jewish, we grew up with Christmas trees but had Jewish ornaments.
— Gina Rodriguez
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Pierced from below, souls of my treacherous past. Betrayed by many, now ornaments dripping above.
— Slayer
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Graze the skin with my finger tips. The brush of dead warm flesh pacifies the means. Incised members ornaments on my being. Adulating the skin…
— Slayer
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