"For just as some women are said to……" — Marcus Tullius Cicero
"For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in artificial graces, delights us."
More Adornment Quotes
- Enoch predicted that "the demons and the spirits of the angelic apostates would turn into idolatry all the elements, all… — Tertullian
- Valor is the soldier's adornment. — Livy
- Adornment is never anything except a reflection of the heart. — Coco Chanel
- If, like Hume, I had all manner of adornment in my power, I would still have reservations about using them.… — Immanuel Kant
- Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were)… — Erica Jong
- Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to… — Jean de la Bruyere
- A crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much. — Lloyd Alexander
- Before the development of tourism, travel was conceived to be like study, and it's fruits were considered to be the… — Paul Fussell
- Simplicity is the greatest adornment of art. — Albrecht Durer
- It is a fair adornment of a man and a great convenience both to himself and to all those with… — Isaac Barrow
- The adornment of the body is a human need. I don't see anything superficial about it unless your life becomes… — David LaChapelle
- The man had added to his body in a way that was brave and timeless and beyond adornment. — Sarah Hall