Quotes About Adornment

It was still quite motionless and he felt it with his fingers; it was dead. Accustomed, no doubt, to an uneventful existence, to a humble life spent beneath its poor carapace, it had not been able to bear the dazzling splendor thrust upon it, the glittering cope in which it had been garbed, the gems with which its back had been encrusted, like a ciborium.

En el verdadero hombre mediocre la cabeza es un simple adorno del cuerpo.

There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.

Ornaments were invented by modesty.

To me, accessorizing is the most fun part of an outfit. While I don't think you can't rely on accessories to make a dress that isn't working work, I do love jewelry and handbags more than anything.

When you have a watch on, it just sets everything off. It's the icing on the cake when it comes to your entire look.

The one thing with which you must not adorn [syllabub] is a bottled cherry. Bottled cherries are the quintessence of nastiness in whatever form they are served, tasting of mouth-wash and recalling the lipsticks of undesirable barmaids.

The attribute most noble of the hand Is readiness in giving; of the head, Bending before a teacher; of the mouth, Veracious speaking; of a victor?s arms, Undaunted valour; of the inner heart, Pureness the most unsullied; of the ears, Delight in hearing and receiving truth?These are adornments of high-minded men, Better than all the majesty of Empire.

There was something vulgar about traveling in jewels. As she realized this truth, she codified it into a saying. At the earliest perfect opportunity she would bring it out as proof of her having opinions—and of having traveled. "The overdressed traveler betrays more interest in being seen than in seeing," she murmured, trying it out, "while the true traveler knows that the novel world about her serves as the most appropriate accessory." Good, very good.

and she put a wreath of white lilies round her hair, but every petal of the flowers was half a pearl;

A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.

Buttons are the fossils of the sartorial world, enduring long past the garments they were designed to hold together.

Before the development of tourism, travel was conceived to be like study, and it's fruits were considered to be the adornment of the mind and the formation of the judgment.

Biceps are like ornaments on a Christmas tree.

On the moon we wore feathers in our hair, and rubies on our hands. On the moon we had gold spoons.

Friendship is Love with jewels on, but without either flowers or veil.

I wear a lot of different jewellery. I love to look for it when Im abroad or if I find a great antique or vintage shop.

Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward joy by outward beauty

Different from Zuleika, he cared for his wardrobe and his toilet-table not as a means to making others admire him the more, but merely as a means through which he could intensify, a ritual in which to express and realise, his own idolatry.

Tiny rooms opened up onto the corridor, rooms that would have been like monastic cells if each of the girls hadn't made hers comfortable in her own way and according to her own taste. As she passed, Andie got glimpses of a riot of draped fabrics like a gypsy tent in one, a tapestry loom in another, painted murals of garden scenes in a third.

The feminist call was for women to embrace ways of seeing beauty and adorning ourselves that are healthy, life-affirming, and not overly time-time consuming.

I love my silver payals which I've been wearing for years now.

A] smile is the most becoming ornament that any lady can wear.

prehistoric humans who discovered death reacted by celebrating life. Through self-adornment and embellishment, they affirmed their existence, defying the final tragedy to come. They employed symbolism to express their immense joy at being alive (still).