Ornaments Quotes

As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all too much loaded with finery and ornaments, to make on me at least, the intended impression.

Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.

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 ornament of my soul.

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 with far more attention than he listened to her father. It seemed as if it fascinated him to see her push it up impatiently, until it tightened her soft flesh; and then to mark the loosening—the fall. He could almost have exclaimed—'There it goes, again!

There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.

Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments.

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 become an ornament.

But the building's identity resided in the ornament.

Therefore, I bind these lies and slanderous accusations to my person as an ornament; it belongs to my Christian profession to be vilified, slandered, reproached and reviled, and since all this is nothing but that, as God and my conscience testify, I rejoice in being reproached for Christ's sake.

Anyone may have diamonds: an heirloom is an ornament of quite a different kind.

The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.

I have emerged victorious from my thirty years of struggle. I have freed mankind from superfluous ornament.

The hair is the richest ornament of women.

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

The ancients, who in these matters were not perhaps such blockheads as some may conceive, considered poetical quotation as one of the requisite ornaments of oratory.

The greatest ornament of an illustrious life is modesty and humility,
which go a great way in the character even of the most exalted princes.

I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.

I love art, and I love history, but it is living art and living history that I love. It is in the interest of living art and living history that I oppose so-called restoration. What history can there be in a building bedaubed with ornament, which cannot at the best be anything but a hopeless and lifeless imitation of the hope and vigor of the earlier world?

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 and virtue, are complete sceptics in religion.

I'm a disorganized mess. My purse is gross: I once found a shoulder pad, string cheese, and a Christmas ornament in it!

It isn't money itself that causes the trouble, but the use of money as votive offering and pagan ornament.

We tend to treat our knowledge as personal property to be protected and defended. It is an ornament that allows us to rise in the pecking order. [...] We take what we know a little too seriously.

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 the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!

The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

The ornaments of our homes are the friends that visit it

Plato defines melody to consist of harmony, number and words: harmony naked of itself, words the ornament of harmony, number the common friend and uniter of them both.

True ornament is not a matter of prettifying externals. It is organic with the structure it adorns, whether a person, a building, or a park. At its best it is an emphasis of structure, a realization in graceful terms of the nature of that which is ornamented

Some Christmas tree ornaments do more than glitter and glow, they represent a gift of love given a long time ago

Silence is an ornament for women.

He takes the greatest ornament from friendship,
who takes modesty from it. [Lat.,
Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit,
qui ex ea tollit verecudiam.]

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 about it?

Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.

Art matters not merely because it is the most magnificent ornament and the most nearly unfailing occupation of our lives, but because it is life itself.

Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth.

Sustainability has become an ornament.

In religion, What damned error but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?

Manners are the ornament of action.

Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.

In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.

So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament.

Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion.

Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain.

Greatness of Soul seems therefore to be as it were a crowning ornament of the virtues; it enhances their greatness, and it cannot exist without them. Hence it is hard to be truly great-souled, for greatness of soul is impossible without moral nobility.

He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect.

I believe that organized religion is an ornament to the truth, and that aesthetics are part of its power.

One of the first principles of decorative art is that in all manufactures ornament must hold a place subordinate to that of utility; and when, by its exuberance, ornament interferes with utility, it is misplaced and vulgar.

Ornaments were invented by modesty.

Where virtue is, sensibility is the ornament and becoming attire of virtue. On certain occasions it may almost be said to become virtue. But sensibility and all the amiable qualities may likewise become, and too often have become, the panders of vice and the instruments of seduction.

I am glad that the life of pandas is so dull by human standards, for our efforts at conservation have little moral value if we preserve creatures only as human ornaments; I shall be impressed when we show solicitude for warty toads and slithering worms.