List Of Ornaments Quotes

As By Some Might Be Saide Of Me: That Here I Have But Gathered A Nosegay Of Strange Floures, And Have Put Nothing Of Mine Unto It, But The Thred To Binde Them. Certes, I Have Given Unto Publike Opinion, That These Borrowed Ornaments Accompany Me; But I Meane Not They Should Cover Or Hide Me.

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?

Bad Conduct Soils The Finest Ornament More Than Filth.

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.

Rhime Being No Necessary Adjunct Or True Ornament Of Poem Or Good Verse, In Longer Works Especially, But The Invention Of A Barbarous Age, To Set Off Wretched Matter And Lame Meeter...the Troublesom And Modern Bondage Of Rimeing.

Coordinating There Events And Objects With Remote Events And Vanished Objects. Making Ornaments Of Accidents And Possibilities.

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.

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.

Ornament Is But The Guiled Shore To A Most Dangerous Sea.

How Much More Doth Beauty Beauteous Seem By That Sweet Ornament Which Truth Doth Give!

Of Chastity, The Ornaments Are Chaste.

So May The Outward Shows Be Least Themselves; The World Is Still Deceived With 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?

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.

Beauty Doesn't Need Ornaments. Softness Can't Bear The Weight Of Ornaments.

Christmas Is A Box Of Tree Ornaments That Have Become Part Of The Family.

A Metaphor Is Not An Ornament. It Is An Organ Of Perception. Through Metaphors, We See The World As One Thing Or Another.

Don't Let Your Heart Depend On Things That Ornament Life In A Fleeting Way! He Who Possesses, Let Him Learn To Lose, He Who Is Fortunate, Let Him Learn Pain.

The Hair Is The Finest Ornament Women Have. Of Old, Virgins Used To Wear It Loose, Except When They Were In Mourning.

The Hair Is The Richest Ornament Of Women.

I Have Emerged Victorious From My Thirty Years Of Struggle. I Have Freed Mankind From Superfluous Ornament.

Manners Are The Ornament Of Action.

A Nation Which Lives A Pastoral And Innocent Life Never Decorates The Shepherd's Staff Or The Plough-handle; But Races Who Live By Depredation And Slaughter Nearly Always Bestow Exquisite Ornaments On The Quiver, The Helmet, And The Spear.

Another Of The Strange And Evil Tendencies Of The Present Day Is The Decoration Of The Railroad Station... There Was Never More Flagrant Nor Impertinent Folly Than The Smallest Portion Of Ornament In Anything Connected With The Railroads... Railroad Architecture Has Or Would Have A Dignity Of Its Own If It Were Only Left To Its Work.