Ornaments Quotes

• The ornaments of our homes are the friends that visit it

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Home

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

  Charles M. Schulz

  Christmas, Tree, Boxes

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• The hair is the richest ornament of women.

  Martin Luther

  Women, Hair, Hair Stylist

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• The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Friendship, Relationship

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.253, Harvard University Press

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• The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Real, Character, Sisterhood

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.139, Courier Corporation

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• The greatest ornament of an illustrious life is modesty and humility, which go a great way in the character even of the most exalted princes.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Character, Humility, Way

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

  Munshi Premchand

  Beauty, Needs, Weight

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• 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

  Realization, Matter, Parks

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1987). “Truth Against the World: Frank Lloyd Wright Speaks for an Organic Architecture”

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• Ornaments were invented by modesty.

  Joseph Joubert

  Modesty

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.64

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• The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Beautiful, Running, Art

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• Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Profound, Style, Clearness

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Reflexions et Maximes, 4, p. 758-59, 1922.

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• There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea. First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture....The quiet rhythmic monotone of the wall of logs fills one with the rustic peace of a secluded nook in the woods.

  Gustav Stickley

  Wall, Curves, Ideas

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• Silence is an ornament for women.

  Sophocles

  Silence, Silence Is

  Sophocles (1963). “Sophocles, Ajax”

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

  John Ruskin

  Flower, Garden, Enough

  John Ruskin (1873). “The Stones of Venice”, p.339

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• When a slave begins to take pride in his fetters and hugs them like precious ornaments, the triumph of the slave-owner is complete.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Pride, Slave Owners, Hug

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.125, Courier Corporation

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• There was very little about her face and figure that was in any way remarkable, but it was the sort of face which, when animated by conversation or laughter, is completely transformed. She had a lovely disposition, a quick mind and a fondness for the comical. She was always very ready to smile and, since a smile is the most becoming ornament that any lady can wear, she had been known upon occasion to outshine women who were acknowledged beauties in three countries.

  Susanna Clarke

  Country, Laughter, Mind

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• Anyone may have diamonds: an heirloom is an ornament of quite a different kind.

  Elizabeth Aston

  Different, May, Heirlooms

  Elizabeth Aston (2003). “Mr. Darcy's Daughters: A Novel”, Touchstone

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

  Joseph Addison

  Literature, Modesty, Virtue

  Joseph Addison (1721). “THE WORKS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOSEPH ADDISON, Esq; In FOUR VOLUMES.: VOLUME the THIRD”, p.218

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• Love came down at Christmas, Love all lovely, Love Divine; Love was born at Christmas; Star and angels gave the sign.

  Christina Rossetti

  Christmas, Xmas, Stars

  1893 Verses,'Love Came Down at Christmas'.

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

  Edmund Burke

  Order, Society, Aristocracy

  'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 205

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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 Stravinsky

  Church, Able, Praise

  "Media and Popular Music". Book by Peter Mills (p. 1997), May 16, 2012.

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• 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

  Wall, Fate, Deeds

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.136, Library of America

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• Most works are most beautiful without ornament.

  Walt Whitman

  Beauty, Beautiful

  Walt Whitman, Floyd Stovall (2007). “Prose Works 1892, Volume II: Collect and Other Prose”, p.451, NYU Press

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• 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 brow Will bless it and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament? There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.

  William Shakespeare

  Simple, Errors, Law

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 2, l. 73

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• More than any gift or toy, ornament of tree, let us resolve that this Christmas shall be, like that first Christmas, a celebration of interior treasures.

  Ronald Reagan

  Tree, Firsts, Toys

  Reagan, Ronald (1986). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1984”, p.1900, Best Books on

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