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Quotes About Adornment

I'd rather have flowers in my hair, than diamonds around my neck.
~ Alli Simpson
The adornment of the body is a human need. I don't see anything superficial about it unless your life becomes very materialistic.
~ David LaChapelle
Moreover, the excessive individualism which then prevailed was inconsistent with much public spirit. What little wealth you had seems almost wholly to have been lavished in private luxury. Nowadays, on the contrary, there is no destination of the surplus wealth so popular as the adornment of the city, which all enjoy in equal degree.
~ Edward Bellamy
Even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
~ Anonymous
If a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her.
~ Anonymous
Wealth and children are the adornment of this present world; but the abiding things, the deeds of righteousness, are better with God in reward, and better in hope.
~ Anonymous
I think everyone likes to play dress up from time to time.
~ Lele Pons
Look at the greatest dressers in history - Philadelphia socialite and diplomat Angier Biddle Duke, Sir Anthony Eden, Fred Astaire, the Duke of Windsor, John F. Kennedy, and Gary Cooper - they all sport the well placed pocket adornment.
~ Roger Stone
I would like to be naked and cover myself with cold crystal jewelry. Jewelery and perfume...
~ Anais Nin
I cross the street and walk into the Printemps. I go to the counter with necklaces and bracelets and earrings, which dazzle me always. I stand like a fascinated savage. Glitter. Amethyst. Turquoise. Shell pink. Irish green. I would like to be naked and cover myself in cold crystal jewelry. Jewelry and perfume.
~ Anais Nin
Man seems powerless to face the truth or the relative truth stripped of all adornment.
~ Anais Nin
Dawn has two holes pierced in each ear. (Mary Anne and I will never get our ears pierced.) The
~ Ann M. Martin
and my earlobes have not been stabbed (er, pierced).
~ Ann M. Martin
She did apparel her apparel, and with the preciousness of her body made it most sumptuous.Sidney.3. To
~ Samuel Johnson
This then is the highest adornment of the Kingdom of Christ, that he rules over his church by his Spirit. He
~ John Calvin
but will supply our necessities until our warfare is ended, and we are called to triumph: such being the nature of his kingdom, that he communicates to us whatever he received of his Father. Since then he arms and equips us by his power, adorns us with splendour and magnificence
~ John Calvin
A bracelet of bright hair about the bone.
~ John Donne
It's good to stay as close to real life as you can, and then kind of dress it up.
~ Nelson DeMille
An ex-libris is to the book what a collar is to the dog
~ Edward Gordon Craig
Even if you throw your hair up in a quick topknot or ponytail, you can add instant polish by wearing a headband or bejeweled barrette.
~ Kat Graham
I get extensions, but when they start to get spotty, I go buy wispy lashes and cut them up. I put them where the gaps are when I don't have time to get a fill.
~ Saweetie
I've always liked playing with makeup. It's fun. I love going places and getting dressed up.
~ Lindsey Wixson
I've been enjoying playing with fashion - gold grills and diamond grills have just become a part of that.
~ Jill Scott
I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.
~ Plautus