Quotes About Adornment

Un espíritu humilde, nacido de una profunda convicción de que no somos nada, es una gracia que adorna.

Makeup is no different than clothes and accessories - it's embellishments for your face. And it also gives you creative freedom. You get to have that moment in front the mirror every morning and give yourself self-love. You're making yourself up beautiful, which is essentially self-love.

Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly." —Epictetus

A godly woman's true adornment can't be bought at a department store or acquired in the beauty shop.

A single diamond brooch was her only adornment (one good piece, ladies, and choose it well; everything makes a statement, nothing speaks quite so loudly as cheapness).

Two hallmarks of Homo Sapiens are decoration and self-identification.

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And unless one decorates one's house for oneself alone, best leave it bare, for other people are all wall-eyed.

I love all types of braids. Single, multiple, box braids - I try them all.

A bride never forgets her wedding ornaments!

Modesty is the way you deal with beauty, not the way you avoid it.

Anyone who has been to India - specifically Rajasthan, the rich and kingly region in the country's northwest - knows that when it comes to adornment, Indians do not think like other people.

Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.

When a woman dresses up for an occasion, the man should become the black velvet pillow for the jewel.

Bracelets do not embellish man, nor necklaces bright as the moon; bathing, cosmetics, garland, head-dress, none can add a whit. Man's one true embellishment is language kept perfected: finery must perish, but eternal the refinement of fine language. Bharthari, ii.17–20

Appearance is something you should definitely consider when you're going out. Have your girlfriend clip your nails or something like that.

exquisite--such was Fantine; and beneath these feminine adornments and these ribbons one could divine a statue, and in that statue a soul.

Madame Dufour stood at the head of the table, dressed in a severe black dress that revealed the soup spoon–sized hollow at the base of her long neck. A single diamond brooch was her only adornment (one good piece, ladies, and choose it well; everything makes a statement, nothing speaks quite so loudly as cheapness).

Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their lives with great deeds: they might be compared to some beauty carelessly dressed and thereby all the more attractive.

As far as cosmetics are used for adornment in a conscious and creative way, they are not emblems of inauthenticity: it is when they are presented as the real thing, covering unsightly blemishes, disguising a repulsive thing so that it is acceptable to the world that their function is deeply suspect. The women who dare not go out without their false eyelashes are in serious psychic trouble.

Beards: they grow on you.

wilds with clothing the little princesses would be proud

Underwear shouldn't hurt. If it hurts, you gotta change.

It is true that in France, women put on less things. If they have a necklace, they don't put on earrings; if they have nail polish, they don't put on all their rings and all their bracelets.