Ornate Quotes

24 quotes by 22 authors

Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity. — Christian Nestell Bovee
I listen to money singing, it's like looking down from long French windows at a provincial town. The slums, the canal, the churches ornate and… — Philip Larkin
I don't like my men to be too ornate. I like them to stand back and let their women shine, and they should really wear… — Eva Mendes
But who is this, what thing of sea or land,- Female of sex it seems,- That so bedeck'd, ornate, and gay, Comes this way sailing… — John Milton
I had the right amount of detachment to go back and really appreciate what I had grown up with. Thereâ€™s a particular style that is… — Mario Testino
My contention is that that style is just as stylized as an ornate style. — Rick Moody
Venice never quite seems real, but rather an ornate film set suspended on the water. — Frida Giannini
Ornate rhetorick taught out of the rule of Plato.... To which poetry would be made subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being less suttle and… — John Milton
I have a weakness for buttons. I'm always collecting ornate and nicely decorated ones. — Rila Fukushima
I wrote 'Actor' all on the computer. I didn't touch any instruments until I was in the studio. So while I had all these ornate… — St. Vincent
The worshipful father and first founder and embellisher of ornate eloquence in our English, I mean Master Geoffrey Chaucer. — William Caxton
I used to collect vintage clothing - exquisite lace dresses, embroidered shawls and ornate jewelry - but that's just not me any more. — Britt Ekland
Artistic tricks divert from the effect that an artist endeavors to produce, and even excellent elements such as bullets, arrows, brackets, ornate initials, are at… — Paul Rand
Rather than teasing the buyers, we may blame the society in which they lived for setting up a situation where the purchase of ornate cabinets… — Alain de Botton
Richard...," Julie said, staring down at the open jewelry case in her hand. Inside was an ornate, heart-shaped locket supported by a gold chain. "It's… — Nicholas Sparks
Rich, ornate prose is hard to digest, generally unwholesome, and sometimes nauseating. — William Strunk, Jr.
Miss Trent regarded her thoughtfully. "Well, it's an odd circumstance, but I've frequently observed that whenever you boast of your beauty you seem to lose… — Georgette Heyer
Men were created before women. ... But that doesn't prove their superiority â€“ rather, it proves ours, for they were born out of the lifeless… — Moderata Fonte
It was at this time that she entirely gave up on reading. The covers of books looked like coffins to her, either shabby or ornate,… — Alice Munro
On the Bowery, in the ornate carcass of a formerly grand vaudeville theater, a dance marathon limps along. The contestants, young girls and their fellas,… — Libba Bray

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