Embellishes Quotes

#1. Legend does not contradict history. It preserves the fundamental after but magnifies and embellishes it.

Adrien Rouquette

#2. If the contemplation, even of inanimate beauty, is so delightful; if it ravishes the senses, even when the fair form is foreign tous: What must be the effects of moral beauty? And what influence must it have, when it embellishes our own mind, and is the result of our own reflection and industry?

David Hume

#3. They say that Death embellishes its victims and exaggerates their virtues, but in general it is actually life that wronged them. Death, that pious and irreproachable witness, teaches us, in both truth and charity, that in each man there is usually more good than evil.

Marcel Proust

#4. A beautiful smile is to the female countenance what the sunbeam is to the landscape; it embellishes an inferior face and redeems an ugly one.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#5. In the monotony of everyday existence grief comes as a holiday, and a fire is an entertainment. A scratch embellishes an empty face.

Maxim Gorky

#6. Memory embellishes Life. Forgetfulness makes it possible.

Romare Bearden

#7. Nothing more surely cultivates and embellishes a man than association with refined and virtuous women.

William E. Gladstone

#8. The gymnasium of running, walking on stilts, climbing, etc. stells and makes hardy single powers and muscles, but dancing, like a corporeal poesy, embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once.

Jean Paul

#9. What I've always loved about faeries is the way that they, unlike so many other supernatural creatures, are not human and have never been human. They have different customs and different taboos, and woe to anyone who breaks them.

Holly Black

#10. Modern Boards set key tones in building fact-based business culture.

Pearl Zhu

#11. Clients say, 'What's your strategy,' and I say, 'Ask me what I believe first.' That's a far more enduring answer.

Ginni Rometty

#12. ...one of those moments had just passed, a moment in which normalcy becomes crisis and then flips back so fast it's hard to hang onto the significance of what has just happened" (143).

Jo Deurbrouck

#13. It is easier to write a book with footnotes than the same book written so that children can understand it.

Fulton J. Sheen

#14. Small minds cannot grasp great subjects.

St. Jerome