Quotes About Adornment

The camera slung around his neck...was the only complicated thing he wore.

I love experimenting with different hair styles and going clothes shopping.

A woman wears her tears like jewelry.

La guerra es la fiesta más cruel, pero es siempre un festejo. Hay que adornarse con las mejores galas para danzar con la muerte.

I had much rather be adorned by beauty of character than by jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, character comes from within.

Beauty when most unclothed is clothed best.

Modesty is a diamond setting to female beauty.

My precept to all who build, is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner.

In the first week I found out how much of my old life was about hiding from life. Confronted with the problem of life served neat, without distraction or adornment or superstructure, I had almost no idea of what to do with it.

Fashion is really our armor in the world.

Embellish truth only with a view to gain it the more full and free admission into your hearer's minds; and your ornaments will, in that case, be simple, masculine, natural.

Beatrix had worn her best gown, made of shimmering aniline violet. The bodice was scooped low, revealing a generous expanse of fair skin. Her hair had been curled and swept up with a multitude of pearl-tipped pins- other than that, she wore no adornment.

The twins, who were clearly having a splendid time, had adorned themselves outlandishly. Cassandra was dressed in a green opera cloak with a jeweled feather ornament affixed to her hair. Pandora had tucked a light blue lace parasol beneath one arm, and a pair of lawn tennis rackets in the other, and was wearing a flowery diadem headdress that had slipped partially over one eye.

Sukey's approving glance swept over Amanda's black evening dress, made of shimmering crinkled silk that had been cut very low across the bosom and fitted tightly to her voluptuous shape. Rows of glittering jet beads adorned the bodice and long sleeves, while her gloves and shoes were of soft chamois leather. It was a sophisticated ensemble, one that made the most of Amanda's looks and generously displayed her bosom.

Her flawless pale skin was also spangled with gemstones. I don't know how they'd been attached, but they clung to her and sent little flashes of color glittering around the cavern when she moved. They were concentrated most densely around her ... well ... She'd been, ah, vajazzled.

Through art they confuse us and blind us to our enslavement. Art adorns our prison walls, keeps us silent and diverted and indifferent.

There isn't a girl on earth who'd willingly give up her bangles.

Being sick and having a nose ring sucks!

Indians made necklaces out of practically anything that took their fancy. Eagle and grizzly bear claws were prized by them because it required much skill and daring to get them.

Courage is the fairest adornment of youth.

People always make up stories about princesses. It comes to us with the crown. We have to carry it as lightly as we can.

They dressed her and she laced tightly so that her breasts were pressed into two tantalizing curves of creamy flesh at the neck of her gown. Her glossy black hair was exposed by her pushed-back hood, her long fingers were loaded with rings, she wore her favorite pearl choker with the "B" for Boleyn at her throat, and she paused before she left the room to look at herself in the mirror, and shot her reflection that knowing, seductive little half-smile.

Un recuerdo evocado demasiado a menudo y expresado en forma de historia tiende a convertirse en un estereotipo... cristalizado, perfeccionado, adornado, instalándose en sí mismo en lugar de la memoria pura y dura, y creciendo a sus expensas.

freedom and civility were barriers to absolute power and to the adoration that the powerful could command of others.