Ornaments Quotations

In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.

One of the things I've always loved about New York is there is so much precedent for ornament on industrial buildings.

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth.

I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.

Christmas is a box of tree ornaments that have become part of the family.

A fine thought in fine language is a most precious jewel, and should not be hid away, but be exposed for use and ornament.

... artists were intended to be an ornament to society. As a society in themselves they are unthinkable.

A right mind and generous affection hath more beauty and charms than all other symmetries in the world besides; and a grain of honesty and native worth is of more value than all the adventitious ornaments, estates, or preferments; for the sake of which some of the better sort so oft turn knaves.

I have emerged victorious from my thirty years of struggle. I have freed mankind from superfluous ornament.

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

I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.

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 affection; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar.

...beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments.

The ancients, who in these matters were not perhaps such blockheads as some may conceive, considered poetical quotation as one of the requisite ornaments of oratory.

The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.

Ornaments were invented by modesty.

He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect.

He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it. [Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit verecudiam.]

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

We hew and saw and plane facts to make them dovetail with our prejudices, so that they become mere ornaments with which to parade our objectivity.

As by some might be saide of me: that here I have but gathered a nosegay of strange floures, and have put nothing of mine unto it, but the thred to binde them. Certes, I have given unto publike opinion, that these borrowed ornaments accompany me; but I meane not they should cover or hide me...

The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.

The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete sceptics in religion.

Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.

Clearness is the ornament of deep thought.

True ornament is not a matter of prettifying externals. It is organic with the structure it adorns, whether a person, a building, or a park. At its best it is an emphasis of structure, a realization in graceful terms of the nature of that which is ornamented

Therefore, I bind these lies and slanderous accusations to my person as an ornament; it belongs to my Christian profession to be vilified, slandered, reproached and reviled, and since all this is nothing but that, as God and my conscience testify, I rejoice in being reproached for Christ's sake.

But the building's identity resided in the ornament.

It isn't money itself that causes the trouble, but the use of money as votive offering and pagan ornament.

Humility is an ornament which attracts Krishna's heart. Beginning of all knowledge comes from humility.

I think that the new models of Chevrolet should have Barney Frank as a hood ornament.

A metaphor is not an ornament. It is an organ of perception. Through metaphors, we see the world as one thing or another.

Sustainability has become an ornament.

I cannot however help repeating Piety, because I think it indispensible. Religion in a Family is at once its brightest Ornament & its best Security.

Some Christmas tree ornaments do more than glitter and glow, they represent a gift of love given a long time ago

What greater ornament to a son than a father's glory, or to a father than a son's honorable conduct?

Silence is an ornament for women.

Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.

Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain.

Where virtue is, sensibility is the ornament and becoming attire of virtue. On certain occasions it may almost be said to become virtue. But sensibility and all the amiable qualities may likewise become, and too often have become, the panders of vice and the instruments of seduction.

What an ornament and safeguard is humor! Far better than wit for a poet and writer. It is a genius itself, and so defends from the insanities.

The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.

Manners are the ornament of action.

Coordinating there Events and objects with remote events And vanished objects. Making ornaments Of accidents and possibilities.

Ornament is but the guiled shore to a most dangerous sea.

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

Of chastity, the ornaments are chaste.

So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament.

Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity.

Moral excellence is an ornament for personal beauty; righteous conduct, for high birth; success for learning; and proper spending for wealth.

Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.

Greatness of Soul seems therefore to be as it were a crowning ornament of the virtues; it enhances their greatness, and it cannot exist without them. Hence it is hard to be truly great-souled, for greatness of soul is impossible without moral nobility.

Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.

An alliterative prefix served as an ornament of oratory.

A nation which lives a pastoral and innocent life never decorates the shepherd's staff or the plough-handle; but races who live by depredation and slaughter nearly always bestow exquisite ornaments on the quiver, the helmet, and the spear.

Another of the strange and evil tendencies of the present day is the decoration of the railroad station... There was never more flagrant nor impertinent folly than the smallest portion of ornament in anything connected with the railroads... Railroad architecture has or would have a dignity of its own if it were only left to its work.

There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.

Rhime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meeter...the troublesom and modern bondage of Rimeing

Arms are my ornaments, warfare my repose.

The hair is the finest ornament women have. Of old, virgins used to wear it loose, except when they were in mourning.

The hair is the richest ornament of women.

The arts alone give direct access to experience. To eliminate them from education - or worse, to tolerate them as cultural ornaments - is antieducational obscurantism. It is foisted on us by the pedants and snobs of Hellenistic Greece who considered artistic performance fit only for slaves...

Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion.

Non -violence is infinitely superior to violence , forgiveness is more manly than punishment. Forgiveness is the ornament.

The Cross isn't an ornament, mere symbol. It's the mystery of God's love, that He died for our sins.

The ornaments of our homes are the friends that visit it

A country whose buildings are of wood, can never increase in its improvements to any considerable degree.... Whereas when buildings are of durable materials, every new edifice is an actual and permanent acquisition to the state, adding to its value as well as to its ornament.

As not every instance of similitude can be considered as a proof of imitation, so not every imitation ought to be stigmatised as plagiarism. The adoption of a noble sentiment, or the insertion of a borrowed ornament, may sometimes display so much judgment as will almost compensate for invention; and an inferior genius may, without any imputation of servility, pursue the paths of the ancients, provided he declines to tread in their footsteps.

Most works are most beautiful without ornament.

In religion, What damned error but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?