Quotes About Ornament

Some are created for beauty, and some for use; and there are some which one can do without altogether.

When I started studying architecture, people would say, you know, 'Can you tell me why are all modern buildings so boring?' Because, like, people had this idea that in the good old days, architecture had, like, ornament and little towers and spires and gargoyles, and today, it just becomes very practical.

More than any gift or toy, ornament of tree, let us resolve that this Christmas shall be, like that first Christmas, a celebration of interior treasures.

To spend too much time in them [studying] is sloth, to use them too much for ornament is affectation, to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor* of a scholar….

The royal navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of our island.

Benjamin's aesthetic is dissectional, drawing on Baroque poetry, Baudelaire's writing and fashion histories. The female body becomes ornament, and in such fetishistic fragmentation, body parts are likened to alabaster, snow, jewels, minerals, and the body can, of course, be made equivalent to – that is, bought for – the metal of exchange: money.

There was very little about her face and figure that was in any way remarkable, but it was the sort of face which, when animated by conversation or laughter, is completely transformed. She had a lovely disposition, a quick mind and a fondness for the comical. She was always very ready to smile and, since a smile is the most becoming ornament that any lady can wear, she had been known upon occasion to outshine women who were acknowledged beauties in three countries.

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

Tiger Woods was a month away from 34 years of age when his debutantes began turning up in the news. He was a grown man with a wife and two children. Well, we supposed he had a wife, but that was before we learned she was only an ornament.

Silence is an ornament for women.

I believe that organized religion is an ornament to the truth, and that aesthetics are part of its power.

How much more doth beauty beauteous seem by that sweet ornament which truth doth give!

I'm not a huge jewelry fan.

My grill is intended to be discreet. It's there because I enjoy jewelry.

I'm not so much a shoe or bag person as jewelry, and I think it's because jewelry is like candy.

Every year I buy jewelry to wear on Navami.

Jewelry doesn't give me a sense of security or anything like that I just think it's beautiful.

Nor do apophthegms only serve for ornament and delight, but also for action and civil use, as being the edge-tools of speech which cut and penetrate the knots of business and affairs: for occasions have their revolutions, and what has once been advantageously used may be so again, either as an old thing or a new one.

To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humor of a scholar

Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgement and execution of business.

small glass chicken on the windowsill

You're like a picture; you ought to be enclosed in a gilt frame and stand against the wall.

The Earth reminded us of a Christmas tree ornament hanging in the blackness of space. As we got farther and farther away it diminished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful marble you can imagine.

A beautiful smile is the prettiest ornament that you can find. Happiness is the prettiest color for your imaginative mind.