Famous quotes containing the word ornament:
“The ornament is a statuette, a black figure of a bird. I am prepared to pay on behalf of the figures rightful owner the sum of $5000 for its recovery. I am prepared to promise, to promise ... what is the phrase?No questions will be asked.”
—John Huston (19061987)
“Thus ornament is but the guiled shore
To a most dangerous sea; the beauteous scarf
Veiling an Indian beauty; in a word,
The seeming truth which cunning times put on
To entrap the wisest.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
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