Adornment Quote by Virginia Postrel

The costume of women should be suited to her wants and necessities. It should conduce at once to her health, comfort, and usefulness; and,…

— Amelia Bloomer

Personal adornment is the only cultural form that everybody in the world takes part in.

— A. A. Gill

“Conversations will lift-off when your impulse for personal expression becomes secondary to your interest in hearing from your significant other.”

— Jeremy Poland

But the best argument of all [for evangelism] is to be found in the wounds of Jesus. You want to honor Him, you desire…

— Charles Spurgeon

Beyond domestic animals and our response to their fealty and affection, we have a peculiar charge concerning the wild animals which supply our clothes,…

— S. Parkes Cadman

Such is our impatience, such our hatred of procrastination, to everything but the amendment of our practices and the adornment of our nature, one…

— Walter Savage Landor

By the care she lavishes on her toilet, by the concern she has for her beauty set off by her adornment, a woman regards…

— Georges Bataille

It's a toss-up whether the scenery or the adornment of Marilyn Monroe is the feature of greater attraction in River of No Return. The…

— Bosley Crowther

Valor is the soldier's adornment.

— Livy

Tis Lilith. Who? Adam's first wife is she. Beware the lure within her lovely tresses, The splendid sole adornment of her hair; When she…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!

— Coco Chanel

There's more to clothing than just adornment. It does more than merely change how the world perceives us. It changes how we perceive ourselves.

— Jacqueline Carey