Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

Of chastity, the ornaments are chaste.

Aristotle

Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

Evelyn Waugh

I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it. [Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit verecudiam.]

Oscar Wilde

An alliterative prefix served as an ornament of oratory.

Joseph Joubert

Ornaments were invented by modesty.

Jean Genet

...beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.

Frank Lloyd Wright

True ornament is not a matter of prettifying externals. It is organic with the structure it adorns, whether a person, a building, or a park. At its best it is an emphasis of structure, a realization in graceful terms of the nature of that which is ornamented

James Gray

I feel like it's a real shame that my generation doesn't make an appearance at the opera.

Diane Watson

Shame, shame on America. We were put to the test and we have failed.

bell hooks

Shame produces trauma. Trauma produces paralysis.

Brene Brown

Shame derives its power from being unspeakable.

Augusten Burroughs

There is no shame in being hungry for another person. There is no shame in wanting very much to share your life with somebody.

Frank Lindh

He was treated in a way that was shameful to our country.

Craig Thompson

Shame is always easier to handle if you have someone to share it with.

Douglas Coupland

There is no shame in impulse.

Amy Tan

Your only shame is to have shame.

Edgar Allan Poe

A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young.

Elizabeth Edwards

I have less energy than I did when I was a younger parent, although I was never really a young parent.

Aharon Appelfeld

People who lose their parents when young are permanently in love with them.

Abdul Kalam

We will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India, resulting out of economic prosperity coupled with civilizational heritage.

Yingluck Shinawatra

One thing that I can't avoid the fact, because I am Thaksin's youngest sister.

Chris Evert

I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people.

Chad Harbach

Other things awaited. It was good to be young and to know it for once. So much unfolding to do.

Chelsea Clinton

For most young Americans I know, 'serving' in the broadest sense now seems like the only thing to do.

Billy Joel

Only the good die young.