Quotes About Adornment

At one time, very wealthy ladies only wore real jewels. Now they want costume.

Fashion is a weapon that you can use when you need it.

I can wear a hat or take it off, but either way it's a conversation piece.

I nearly always wear a boring suit but I do sometimes furnish the with long dangly earrings or belly button jewelry.

I like to wear earrings, but I always have to wear lip gloss or something on my lips!

You can change the look of an outfit so easily by changing the kind of jewellery you wear. If you have a basic outfit on - a black sweater and skirt or a simple black dress - you can go from the office to a cocktail party at night just by changing your jewellery. It helps if you change your shoes as well.

It is a temptation for me to wear all my rings at once.

I am an earring person, so I like wearing just nice, big earrings.

There was once a time when I was the hip necklace wearing guy.

I grew up surrounded by these tough, ballsy, strong women. They were also adoring women, but they were the kind of women who would argue over what kind of pants you were wearing or the color of your nail polish.

I always accessorise with jewellery. I am a bit of a magpie; I love sparkles, and so wearing jewellery makes me feel more exciting and confident, too!

It is true I am rather taken up with dress; but as to feathers, every one wears them, and it would seem extraordinary if I did not.

I'm a jewelry girl. I became with friends with designer Irene Neuwirth a few years ago. At that point, I just used to wear my wedding rings. Very low key. Now, if I could, I'd be draped from head to toe in her jewelry all the time. Everything she makes is beautiful.

When you meet someone, you meet their face. It's the most potent part of the body to embellish.

My nan always had lots of jewellery and I remember she had these little pots that she kept on the dressing table. I would sit in front of the mirror and try it all on.

A caveman took a shell, and maybe it had a hole in it, or maybe he put a hole in it, and he put it on a piece of a tail of a donkey or a dinosaur or something and gave it to the cavewoman. She put it around her neck - the first jewel.

Personal adornment is the only cultural form that everybody in the world takes part in.

I deduced a minor truth: gems make fine accents for female beauty—but only as accents; beauty is fundamental. Better no jewelry than to deck a lovely woman like a Christmas tree.

As far back as she could remember, she had gone in for day-dreams about what clothes, jewellery and the like she would wear if, like her admired and adored Marie Antoinette, she were somehow to find herself facing public execution. A country GP's visit was hardly on that scale, but the principle held.

The odd thing is that only lonely people have a tendency to festoon their abodes with extravagant items.

He could wear a fez. Fezzes were cool. Hadn't someone once said that fezzes were cool?

Mila held out a dress so lovely that Snow gasped. She lovingly touched the blue bodice with the cap sleeves that had red accents woven throughout and the shining yellow satin. She hadn't had anything new to wear in a very long time. She almost hesitated to put the dress on- what if she ruined it in the woods? But when else would she have a chance to wear such a fine gown? She slipped into it with glee.

Do not decorate the walls of your house with the valuable stones from Eubœa and Sparta; but adorn the minds (breasts) of the citizens and of those who administer the state with the instruction which comes from Hellas (Greece). For states are well governed by the wisdom (judgment) of men, but not by stone and wood.

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