47 Quotes About Ornaments

Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

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.

Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion.

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

... artists were intended to be an ornament to society. As a society in themselves they are unthinkable.

To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affection; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar.

Moral excellence is an ornament for personal beauty; righteous conduct, for high birth; success for learning; and proper spending for wealth.

He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it. [Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit verecudiam.]

He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect.