Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments.
In the house of a blacksmith the ornaments are made of wood.
Rich people don’t have to have a life-and-death relationship with the truth and its questions; they can ignore the truth and still thrive materially. I am not surprised many of them understand literature only as an ornament. Life is an ornament to ...
I'm afraid, Belle, that being a lady is more than proper clothes. It is an attitude. From your...experience, you may know more of business and politics than ladies are supposed to know. Gentlemen are pleased to think ladies are ornamental, and it is ...
Silence is an ornament for women.
But the helmet had gold decoration, and the bespoke armorers had made a new gleaming breastplate with useless gold ornamentation on it. Sam Vimes felt like a class traitor every time he wore it. He hated being thought of as one of those people that w...
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.
So may the outward shows be least themselves: The world is still deceived with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being seasoned with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned error, but some sober br...
Kate McCallister: [about Kevin] He was in the garage again playing with the glue gun. Peter McCallister: Didn't we talk about that? Kevin McCallister: Did I burn down the joint? I don't think so. I was making ornaments out of fish hooks. Peter McCall...
The building's identity resided in the ornament.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.
The plain old Sam Vimes had fought back. He got rid of most of the plumes and the stupid tights, and ended up with a dress uniform that at least looked as though its owner was male. But the helmet had gold decoration, and the bespoke armourers had ma...
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
Being half Jewish, we grew up with Christmas trees but had Jewish ornaments.
Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.
Modernism, rebelling against the ornament of the 19th century, limited the vocabulary of the designer. Modernism emphasized straight lines, eliminating the expressive S curve. This made it harder to communicate emotions through design.
In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.
