quotes about Ornaments
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I have emerged victorious from my thirty years of struggle. I have freed mankind from superfluous ornament.
-- Adolf Loos -
Sentiment is a disgrace, instead of an ornament, unless it lead us to good actions.
-- Ann RadcliffeSource : Ann Radcliffe (1795). “The Mysteries of Udolfo: A Romance Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry”, p.214
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Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
-- Aristotle -
Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.
-- Aristotle -
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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.
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In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.
-- Charles Jencks -
He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.
-- Charles Lamb -
Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
-- Democritus -
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The ornament of beauty, Shakespeare wrote, is suspect. And he was right. But beauty itself, unadorned and unaffected, is sacred, I think, worthy of our awe and our loyalty.
-- Dennis Lehane -
Anyone may have diamonds: an heirloom is an ornament of quite a different kind.
-- Elizabeth AstonSource : Elizabeth Aston (2003). “Mr. Darcy's Daughters: A Novel”, Touchstone
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... artists were intended to be an ornament to society. As a society in themselves they are unthinkable.
-- Elizabeth Bowen -
I look for myself but find no one. I belong to the chrysanthemum hour of bright flowers placed in tall vases. I should make an ornament of my soul.
-- Fernando Pessoa -
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Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.
-- Francis Bacon -
God help us! it is a foolish little thing, this human life, at the best; and it is half ridiculous and half pitiful to see what importance we ascribe to it, and to its little ornaments and distinctions.
-- Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey -
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
-- Frank Lloyd Wright -
One of the first principles of decorative art is that in all manufactures ornament must hold a place subordinate to that of utility; and when, by its exuberance, ornament interferes with utility, it is misplaced and vulgar.
-- George Mason -
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Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They have replaced, after all, at least in most cases, a resort to weapons in defense of a reputation.
-- Henry Anatole Grunwald -
All are architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time; Some with massive deeds and great, Some with ornaments of rhyme.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
We know much of a writer by his style. An open and imperious disposition is shown in short sentences, direct and energetic. A secretive and proud mind is cold and obscure in style. An affectionate and imaginative nature pours out luxuriantly, and blossoms all over with ornament.
-- Henry Ward Beecher -
I'm a disorganized mess. My purse is gross: I once found a shoulder pad, string cheese, and a Christmas ornament in it!
-- Hoda Kotb -
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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.
-- Igor StravinskySource : "Media and Popular Music". Book by Peter Mills (p. 1997), May 16, 2012.
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...beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments.
-- Jean Genet -
There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.
-- John RuskinSource : John Ruskin (1873). “The Stones of Venice”, p.339
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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?
-- John Ruskin -
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Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
-- Joseph Addison -
Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion.
-- Joseph Addison -
The grossest form of this injury of the body to ornament it, is in tattooing. Next, the piercing the ear all around its rim, piercing the nose and the lips to introduce rings or bars of jewelry ...
-- Julia McNair Wright -
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As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all too much loaded with finery and ornaments, to make on me at least, the intended impression.
-- Karl Philipp MoritzSource : Karl Philipp Moritz (2010). “Travels in England in 1782”, p.55, BoD – Books on Demand
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Plutarch has a fine expression, with regard to some woman of learning, humility, and virtue;--that her ornaments were such as might be purchased without money, and would render any woman's life both glorious and happy.
-- Laurence Sterne -
It isn't money itself that causes the trouble, but the use of money as votive offering and pagan ornament.
-- Lewis H. LaphamSource : Lewis H. Lapham (1989). “Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion”
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But the building's identity resided in the ornament.
-- Louis Sullivan -
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My precept to all who build, is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it. [Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit verecudiam.]
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He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect.
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Right on to the New Period vineyard arbors were the centre and chief ornament of all gardens.
-- Marie-Luise Gothein -
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A metaphor is not an ornament. It is an organ of perception. Through metaphors, we see the world as one thing or another.
-- Neil Postman -
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...
-- Peter Drucker -
The ornaments of our homes are the friends that visit it
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
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But now sustainability is such a political category that it's getting more and more difficult to think about it in a serious way. Sustainability has become an ornament.
-- Rem Koolhaas -
Think it a vile habit to alter works of good composers, to omit parts of them, or to insert new-fashioned ornaments. This is the greatest insult you can offer to Art.
-- Robert Schumann -
I cannot however help repeating Piety, because I think it indispensible. Religion in a Family is at once its brightest Ornament & its best Security.
-- Samuel Adams -
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What greater ornament to a son than a father's glory, or to a father than a son's honorable conduct?
-- Sophocles -
Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain.
-- Thomas OtwaySource : Thomas Otway, Thomas Southerne, Mr. Joseph Trapp “A Collection of the Best English Plays, Chosen Out of All the Best Authors..: Vol. V.”
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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.
-- Isaac D'Israeli -
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Plato defines melody to consist of harmony, number and words: harmony naked of itself, words the ornament of harmony, number the common friend and uniter of them both.
-- John Dowland