47 Quotes About Ornaments

He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.

It isn't money itself that causes the trouble, but the use of money as votive offering and pagan ornament.

The hair is the finest ornament women have. Of old, virgins used to wear it loose, except when they were in mourning.

The hair is the richest ornament of women.

Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain.

Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth.

Another of the strange and evil tendencies of the present day is the decoration of the railroad station... There was never more flagrant nor impertinent folly than the smallest portion of ornament in anything connected with the railroads... Railroad architecture has or would have a dignity of its own if it were only left to its work.

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?

I believe that organized religion is an ornament to the truth, and that aesthetics are part of its power.