Ornaments Quotes

• The hair is the richest ornament of women.

  Martin Luther

  Women, Hair, Hair Stylist

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• The ornaments of our homes are the friends that visit it

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Home

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• 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

  Character, Humility, Way

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• The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Real, Character, Sisterhood

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.139, Courier Corporation

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• Christmas is a box of tree ornaments that have become part of the family.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Christmas, Tree, Boxes

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• Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Profound, Style, Clearness

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Reflexions et Maximes, 4, p. 758-59, 1922.

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

  Munshi Premchand

  Beauty, Needs, Weight

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• The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Friendship, Relationship

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.253, Harvard University Press

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

  John Ruskin

  Flower, Garden, Enough

  John Ruskin (1873). “The Stones of Venice”, p.339

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• Silence is an ornament for women.

  Sophocles

  Silence, Silence Is

  Sophocles (1963). “Sophocles, Ajax”

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• 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

  Beautiful, Running, Art

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• Ornaments were invented by modesty.

  Joseph Joubert

  Modesty

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.64

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• When a slave begins to take pride in his fetters and hugs them like precious ornaments, the triumph of the slave-owner is complete.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Pride, Slave Owners, Hug

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.125, Courier Corporation

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• There was very little about her face and figure that was in any way remarkable, but it was the sort of face which, when animated by conversation or laughter, is completely transformed. She had a lovely disposition, a quick mind and a fondness for the comical. She was always very ready to smile and, since a smile is the most becoming ornament that any lady can wear, she had been known upon occasion to outshine women who were acknowledged beauties in three countries.

  Susanna Clarke

  Country, Laughter, Mind

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

  Joseph Addison

  Literature, Modesty, Virtue

  Joseph Addison (1721). “THE WORKS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOSEPH ADDISON, Esq; In FOUR VOLUMES.: VOLUME the THIRD”, p.218

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• Most works are most beautiful without ornament.

  Walt Whitman

  Beauty, Beautiful

  Walt Whitman, Floyd Stovall (2007). “Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose”, p.451, NYU Press

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

  Elizabeth Aston

  Different, May, Heirlooms

  Elizabeth Aston (2003). “Mr. Darcy's Daughters: A Novel”, Touchstone

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• There is no doubt that Greek and Latin are great and handsome ornaments, but we buy them too dear.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Latin, Greek, Doubt

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.128, Stanford University Press

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• The arts alone give direct access to experience. To eliminate them from education - or worse, to tolerate them as cultural ornaments - is antieducational obscurantism. It is foisted on us by the pedants and snobs of Hellenistic Greece who considered artistic performance fit only for slaves.

  Peter Drucker

  Art, Giving, Pedants

  Peter F. Drucker (2011). “Landmarks of Tomorrow: A Report on the New”, p.144, Transaction Publishers

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• What I resist is techniques. I find techniques very problematic. So when critics talk about my work in those terms, I find that they miss the condition. I am comfortable with the notion of pattern and ornament as a system of organization, [but] for me it acts as a textile. So it's not about pattern, but the notion of architecture through the lens of textile, rather than architecture through the lens of brick and mortar.

  David Adjaye

  Organization, Bricks And Mortar, Missing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Realization, Matter, Parks

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1987). “Truth Against the World: Frank Lloyd Wright Speaks for an Organic Architecture”

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• There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea. First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture....The quiet rhythmic monotone of the wall of logs fills one with the rustic peace of a secluded nook in the woods.

  Gustav Stickley

  Wall, Curves, Ideas

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• Love came down at Christmas, Love all lovely, Love Divine; Love was born at Christmas; Star and angels gave the sign.

  Christina Rossetti

  Christmas, Xmas, Stars

  1893 Verses,'Love Came Down at Christmas'.

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• Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

  Aristotle

  Success, Education, Teaching

  Aristotle (2015). “The Aristotle Collection [50 Books]”, Catholic Way Publishing

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  No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Book, Reading, House

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1870). “Little Pussy Willow”, p.66

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