ORNAMENT

Related Subjects: Dress, Ostentation, Vanity

1. Ornaments were invented by modesty.—JOUBERT, Pensees
   

2. The true ornament of matrons is virtue, not apparel.—JUSTIN
   

3. Show is not substance; realities govern wise men.—WILLIAM PENN
   

4. The world is still deceiv'd with ornament,
   In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt,
   But, being season'd 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?—SHAKESPEARE, The Merchant of Venice
   

5. Orators and stage-coachmen, when the one wants argument and the other a coat of arms, adorn their cause and their coaches with rhetoric and flower-pots.—W. SHENSTONE
   

6. Loveliness
   Needs not the foreign aid of ornament,
   But is when unadorn'd, adorn'd the most.—JAMES THOMSON, The Seasons
   

7. We all originally came from the woods; it is hard to eradicate from any of us the old taste for the tattoo and the war-paint; and the moment that money gets into our pockets, it somehow or another breaks out in ornaments on our person, without always giving refinement to our manners.—E. P. WHIPPLE