Quotes About Embellishment

Marriage, rightly concluded, is an incarnation of love--poetry expressed in action--a sweet embellishment of an otherwise prosaic existence.

Exaggeration is the melodramatic child of truth.

I love to take something ordinary and make it really special.

I love a bit of a sequin and a bead. I do, even though I usually wear trousers, when I put a frock on. I like a bead or a sequin.

It's your job as an actor to fill out the blanks. I love doing that. To fill in the bones.

Love is a beautifier.

I love accessorizing with jewelry.

And think about the precise meaning of that term: a Narcissus is not proud. A proud man has disdain for other people, he undervalues them. The Narcissus overvalues them, because in every person's eyes he sees his own image, and wants to embellish it. So he takes nice care of all his mirrors.

I like what Proenza Schouler is doing. I also love the Miu Miu chunky embellished shoes and really like Prada as well.

I have never been attracted to a person's pretentious demeanor. A gaudy surface often obscures a hidden agenda. Rather, I trust the quiet, unassuming person much more than one who constantly needs to remind others of his accomplishments and embellish them. —EMPEROR RODERICK CORRINO

Any story worth telling is worth exaggerating.

If I get two lines in the script, I somehow turn it into 20. I've got a bit of a bad habit of doing that, of just embellishing my little moment.

The business of courtship is like a tango: absurd and pure embellishment.

Like Thomas Hardy with his Casterbridge, my own fictional Pennington is based on a well-known English county town, which I embellish with buildings, parks, and houses from my imagination.

I think a girl always needs a cardigan, and I tend to go for the sparkles. I have a minimum of 50 embellished cardigans. I'm not a believer in less is more; I'm sort of a believer in more is necessary.

he starts telling them about our day, embellishing it so that it almost sounds fun. It's how all good travel stories are born. Nightmares spun into punch lines.

She embellished the facts, because she was aware that life is how we tell it, so why would she jot down trivia?

Apparently, I am a bit of an exaggerator when I tell stories. But I don't call them lies; I say they are better, funnier truths.

Southerners have this love of embellishment. Even when you read a police report, there's some backstory.

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

It was as if the story had been added to, so as not to disgust people too much.

Exaggeration is to paint a snake and add legs.

The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.

The clarity was startling and Samson wondered whether he was imagining these moments. Not that they hadn't happened at all, but that they had been embellished by details from elsewhere, fragments that survived the obliteration of other memories, vagrant data that gravitated and stuck to what was left to remember. But in the end he rejected this idea. The memories were too perfect: take one detail away and they collapsed into disorder.