Quotation Explorer - 'Ornament'

Ornament is but the guiled shore to a most dangerous sea. - William Shakespeare
How much more doth beauty beauteous seem by that sweet ornament which truth doth give! - William Shakespeare
Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way. - Charles Kingsley
She was a phantom of delight When first she gleam'd upon my sight; A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament. - William Wordsworth
Just think how beautiful you can be if kindness is your ornament of beauty. - Debasish Mridha
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
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
I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament. - Alanis Morissette
Anyone may have diamonds: an heirloom is an ornament of quite a different kind. - Elizabeth Aston
Dream is an expensive ornament to adorn your hope - Munia Khan
He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect. - Cicero
The smile is the most beautiful ornament that you can wear. - Debasish Mridha
Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age. - Aristotle
No ornament can make a person look beautiful if the person has a bad heart! A good heart is the finest ornament, the best makeup, the best cloth, the best jewel, the best lipstick and the best earring! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Silence is an ornament which is visible from inside. (Le silence est une parure - Qui se voit de l'intérieur) - Charles de Leusse
A beautiful smile is the prettiest ornament that you can find. Happiness is the prettiest color for your imaginative mind. - Debasish Mridha
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world. Sentiment is a disgrace, instead of an ornament, unless it lead us to good actions. - Ann Radcliffe
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