Quotes by Ornaments 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 ornaments helping thinking Manners are the ornament of action. Samuel Smiles ornaments action manners 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. Samuel Taylor Coleridge ornaments quality vices 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. Samuel Johnson ornaments adoption writing I think that the new models of Chevrolet should have Barney Frank as a hood ornament. Sean Hannity ornaments should-have thinking Elegance is not an ornament worthy of man. Seneca the Younger ornaments elegance men Woman, to women silence is the best ornament. Sophocles ornaments silence-is silence What greater ornament to a son than a father's glory, or to a father than a son's honorable conduct? Sophocles ornaments father son Silence is an ornament for women. Sophocles ornaments silence-is silence I am glad that the life of pandas is so dull by human standards, for our efforts at conservation have little moral value if we preserve creatures only as human ornaments; I shall be impressed when we show solicitude for warty toads and slithering worms. Stephen Jay Gould ornaments pandas effort All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas! T. E. Lawrence ornaments details world Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain. Thomas Otway ornaments honesty needs Some Christmas tree ornaments do more than glitter and glow, they represent a gift of love given a long time ago Tom Baker ornaments tree long 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. Thomas Jefferson ornaments degrees country The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence. Virginia Woolf ornaments silence witty Coordinating there Events and objects with remote events And vanished objects. Making ornaments Of accidents and possibilities. Vladimir Nabokov ornaments possibility events Most works are most beautiful without ornament. Walt Whitman ornaments beautiful beauty 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. Walter Scott ornaments humor insanity I love art, and I love history, but it is living art and living history that I love. It is in the interest of living art and living history that I oppose so-called restoration. What history can there be in a building bedaubed with ornament, which cannot at the best be anything but a hopeless and lifeless imitation of the hope and vigor of the earlier world? William Morris ornaments restoration art In religion, What damned error but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament? William Shakespeare ornaments atheism errors «123456»
