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Adornment is never anything except a reflection of the heart. -- Coco Chanel
Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance! -- Coco Chanel
The elegance of honesty needs no adornment. -- Mary Browne
The impulse for personal adornment is hard to stamp out. -- Virginia Postrel
What time he can spare from the adornment of his person he devotes to the neglect of his duties. -- William Hepworth Thompson
The adornment of the body is a human need. I don't see anything superficial about it unless your life becomes very materialistic. -- David LaChapelle
As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art. -- Albrecht Durer
Anyone who has been to India - specifically Rajasthan, the rich and kingly region in the country's northwest - knows that when it comes to adornment, Indians do not think like other people. -- Hanya Yanagihara
Femininity is not just lipstick, stylish hairdos, and trendy clothes. It is the divine adornment of humanity. It finds expression in your qualities of your capacity to love, your spirituality, delicacy, radiance, sensitivity, creativity, charm, graciousness, gentleness, dignity, and quiet strength. -- James E. Faust
Valor is the soldier's adornment. -- Livy
Courage is the fairest adornment of youth. -- Erich Maria Remarque
Simplicity is the greatest adornment of art. -- Albrecht Durer
Nakedness makes us democratic, adornment makes us individuals. -- Liberace
The adornment of the body is a human need. -- David LaChapelle
Silence is the adornment of the wise, and for the foolish the only dignity possible. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
A crown is more discomfort than adornment. If you have learned that, you have already learned much. -- Lloyd Alexander
The man had added to his body in a way that was brave and timeless and beyond adornment. -- Sarah Hall
All the time that he can spare from the adornment of his person, he devotes to the neglect of his duties. -- Bertrand Russell
Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion? -- Erica Jong
There's more to clothing than just adornment. It does more than merely change how the world perceives us. It changes how we perceive ourselves. -- Jacqueline Carey
For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in artificial graces, delights us. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art." -- Albrecht Durer
Where fashion in clothes, bodily adornment, and music are concerned, it is the underclass that increasingly sets the pace. Never before has there been so much downward cultural aspiration. -- Anthony Daniels
Before the development of tourism, travel was conceived to be like study, and it's fruits were considered to be the adornment of the mind and the formation of the judgment. -- Paul Fussell
Humanity can be roughly divided into three sorts of people - those who find comfort in literature, those who find comfort in personal adornment, and those who find comfort in food; -- Elizabeth Goudge
Those arts which are, to be sure, not finite, as geometry and arithmetic, do not suffer adornment; others, contrarily, are rather subject to division and embellishment, such as astronomy and jurisprudence. -- Gerolamo Cardano
By the care she lavishes on her toilet, by the concern she has for her beauty set off by her adornment, a woman regards herself as an object always trying to attract men's attention. -- Georges Bataille
The "religion of pity" to which people would like to convert us- oh, we know well enough the hysterical little men and women who need this religion at present as a veil and an adornment! -- Friedrich Nietzsche

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