Ornament Quotes
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Ornament Quotes & Sayings
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The smile is the most beautiful ornament that you can wear.
— Debasish Mridha
Libraries are the wardrobes of literature, whence men, properly informed may bring forth something for ornament, much for curiosity, and more for use.
— William Dyer
Are you going to sit down?" Ida Belle asked. "Or am I supposed to drive down the bayou with you up there looking like a Jackie Chan hood ornament?
— Jana Deleon
The real Rose Hovick was seriously mentally disturbed; June Havoc called her a beautiful little ornament that was damaged.
— Karen Abbott
One of the things I've always loved about New York is there is so much precedent for ornament on industrial buildings.
— Annabelle Selldorf
[A] smile is the most becoming
ornament that any lady can wear. — Susanna Clarke
ornament that any lady can wear. — Susanna Clarke
The hair is the richest ornament of women.
— Martin Luther
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.
— Fernando Pessoa
I have emerged victorious from my thirty years of struggle. I have freed mankind from superfluous ornament.
— Adolf Loos
The knowledge of the past times and of the places of the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human mind.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
In my experience , big words ornament bad news.
— Roshani Chokshi
An alliterative prefix served as an ornament of oratory.
— Oscar Wilde
I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.
— Alanis Morissette
The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do is his greatest ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it.
— Thomas Carlyle
Wisdom is an ornament of grace to the soul.
— Elizabeth George
The Cross isn't an ornament, mere symbol. It's the mystery of God's love, that He died for our sins.
— Pope Francis
Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
Education gives sobriety to the young, comfort to the old, riches to the poor and is an ornament to the rich.
— Diogenes
Most works are most beautiful without ornament.
— Walt Whitman
I am a pretty, useless ornament who always believed she'd have a man to take care of her.
— V.C. Andrews
Mayweather was already a gargoyle for our era, a gleaming hood ornament on a demented limo running one red light after another, America's id.
— Brin-Jonathan Butler
It isn't money itself that causes the trouble, but the use of money as votive offering and pagan ornament.
— Lewis H. Lapham
Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity.
— Charles Caleb Colton
A hoarse shout from within and a small china ornament whizzing past my head informed me that my old friend was at home.
— P.G. Wodehouse
Nature should be idealised not copied.
— Owen Jones Classics
The building's identity resided in the ornament.
— Louis Sullivan
The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.
— Oliver Goldsmith
The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.
— John Ruskin
Indeed the river is a perpetual gala, and boasts each month a new ornament.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.
— Charles Jencks
Moral excellence is an ornament for personal beauty; righteous conduct, for high birth; success for learning; and proper spending for wealth.
— Chanakya
I'm a disorganized mess. My purse is gross: I once found a shoulder pad, string cheese, and a Christmas ornament in it!
— Hoda Kotb
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
— Edmund Burke
My precept to all who build, is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.
— Charles Kingsley
he belonged to that class of men who think a weak head the ornament of women - an opinion invariably punished in this life.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
I know your soul. Everything else is just an ornament.
— Roshani Chokshi
That head of yours should be for use as well as
ornament. — Arthur Conan Doyle
ornament. — Arthur Conan Doyle
I think art is not an ornament or refinement at the fringes of human intelligence, I think it's at the center. It's at the core.
— Robert Pinsky
By the word simplicity, is not always meant folly or ignorance; but often, pure and upright Nature, free from artifice, craft or deceitful ornament.
— Benjamin Franklin
In religion, What damned error but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?
— William Shakespeare
Love is the greatest ornament in your heart;
wisdom is the greatest ornament in your mind. — Matshona Dhliwayo
wisdom is the greatest ornament in your mind. — Matshona Dhliwayo
The only really Christian art is that which, like St. Francis, does not fear being wedded to poverty. This rises far above art-as-ornament.
— Andre Gide
We are so made that we soon grow weary of ornament for sake of ornament, and even of beauty that makes no appeal to the heart or the understanding.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
The 'leisured' wife was a badge of achievement, the ornament to hard work and virtue for families on the way up.
— Hilda Scott
So many the outward shows be least themselves. The world is still deceived with ornament.
— William Shakespeare
Elegance is not an ornament worthy of man.
— Seneca The Younger
Classical ornament here and there accentuated the contrast; caryatides and carved masks of comedy or tragedy looked
— G.K. Chesterton
What an ornament and safeguard is humor! Far better than wit for a poet and writer. It is a genius itself, and so defends from the insanities.
— Walter Scott
Well, don't stand about like that, man; if you're no use you're certainly no ornament. Bring that in and tell me what it says.
— Stephen Baxter
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?
— John Ruskin
Manners are the ornament of action.
— Samuel Smiles
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
The world, which the Greeks called Beauty, has been made such by being gradually divested of every ornament which was not fitted to endure.
— Henry David Thoreau
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.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
How much more doth beauty beauteous seem by that sweet ornament which truth doth give!
— William Shakespeare
I'm tied up, gagged and about to be bludgeoned to death by a lawn ornament. Jeez, that's depressing.
- Raven Smith — Rita Stradling
- Raven Smith — Rita Stradling
Learning is an ornament to a good woman, not a distraction.
— Philippa Gregory
Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
A beautiful smile is the prettiest ornament that you can find.
Happiness is the prettiest color for your imaginative mind. — Debasish Mridha
Happiness is the prettiest color for your imaginative mind. — Debasish Mridha
Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon; women at once make it into an ornament.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.
— Sophocles
I was lost... lost in a practical world... an ornament with a heart.
— Barbara Payton
I believe that organized religion is an ornament to the truth, and that aesthetics are part of its power.
— Andrew Solomon
I think that the new models of Chevrolet should have Barney Frank as a hood ornament.
— Sean Hannity
She was a lovely woman, fitted both by nature and education to be an ornament to society and her family.
— Rebecca Shannonhouse
Dream is an expensive ornament to adorn your hope
— Munia Khan
Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion.
— Joseph Addison
Young girls should be an or e, not an ache to the ear.
— George R R Martin
Non -violence is infinitely superior to violence , forgiveness is more manly than punishment. Forgiveness is the ornament.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Artists were intended to be an ornament to society. As a society in themselves they are unthinkable.
— Elizabeth Bowen
Love is an ornament of the affluent, there can be no love if you need to fight for your existence.
— Ritu Chowdhary
Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.
— Aristotle.
Right on to the New Period vineyard arbors were the centre and chief ornament of all gardens.
— Marie-Luise Gothein
I'm a bit short on brain myself; the old bean would appear to have been constructed more for ornament than for use, don't you know ...
— P.G. Wodehouse
Sensible men show their sense by saying much in few words. If noble actions are the substance of life, good sayings are its ornament and guide.
— Charles Simmons
Ornament is but the guiled shore to a most dangerous sea.
— William Shakespeare
Clearness is the ornament of deep thought.
— Luc De Clapiers
By no stretch of charity could he be called an ornament to the human species.
— Samuel Hopkins Adams
The naked shoulder was gown's only ornament
— Ayn Rand
The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
— Nora Roberts
Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
— Joseph Addison