Famous quotes containing the word adorn:
“Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman’s sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and, roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison. Men have various employments and pursuits which engage their attention, and give a character to the opening mind; but women, confined to one, and having their thoughts constantly directed to the most insignificant part of themselves, seldom extend their views beyond the triumph of the hour.”
—Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)
“You adorn me with your own opulence. May you never revoke all that you lent me!”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)
“The soft engravings which adorn the annuals give no idea of a stream in such a wilderness as this.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)