Ornament Quotes

“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 browWill bless it and approve it with a text,Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?There is no vice so simple but assumesSome mark of virtue on his outward parts.”

“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 them, relationships are ornaments, their 'work' is but a flimsy, pretty ornament meant to momentarily thrill and capture attention.”

“Silence is an ornament for women.”

“Dream is an expensive ornament to adorn your hope”

“Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments.”

“The building's identity resided in the ornament.”

“Wisdom is an ornament of grace to the soul.”

“Black bodies have become ornamental, haven't they?”

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