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ornaments grit pearls
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.
ornaments monstrosity certain
Jean Genet ...beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments.
ornaments weakness shows
Nassim Nicholas Taleb The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.
ornaments oratory
Oscar Wilde An alliterative prefix served as an ornament of oratory.
ornaments chastity chaste
William Shakespeare Of chastity, the ornaments are chaste.
ornaments modesty
Joseph Joubert Ornaments were invented by modesty.
ornaments modesty maximum
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.]
ornaments mystery sin
Pope Francis The Cross isn't an ornament, mere symbol. It's the mystery of God's love, that He died for our sins.
modesty foul clearness
William Shakespeare We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them.
modesty virtue
Alan King Modesty is not one of my virtues.
modesty virtue thrive
John Adams Modesty is a virtue that can never thrive in public.
modesty stuck-up stuck
Maya Angelou I have no modesty. Modesty is a learned affectation. It's like decal stuck up on a person.
modesty farming farmers
Bharati Mukherjee A farmer is dependent on too many things outside his control; it makes for modesty.
modesty divine
Francois Rabelais Ha! for a divine and lordly manor, there is nothing like solid ground.
modesty blind outrage
Jean Cocteau Be a constant outrage to modesty There is nothing to fear: modesty is exercised only among the blind.
modesty twins chastity
Anna Jameson Modesty and chastity are twins
modesty notorious superiors
Erik Satie I am by far your superior, but my notorious modesty prevents me from saying so.
maximum-number numbers people
Dick Cheney Obviously, it's a big problem how do we provide quality care to the maximum number of people. And it's not an easy problem to solve.
maximum offending otherwise people reader supply
Amity Shlaes If you do a serious presidential bio, you want to supply the reader with maximum material because otherwise you're offending the reader. A president for many people is a serious thing and they want to know everything.
maximum pushing troops using
John Spratt We are pushing the envelope. We are using our troops pretty much to their maximum utility.
maximum moral sympathy technical
Daniele Audetto We have a lot of sympathy and we give him the maximum moral and technical support.
maximum moment
Fausto Bertinotti We are in the moment of the maximum uncertainty.
maximum percent
Dan Boone It can be a maximum of 25 percent of what you owe.
maximum needed win
Sean Taylor For us to win we needed to (capitalize). We needed to have maximum possessions.
maximum men qualified seeking shortage somehow women
James Sinegal If somehow a proclamation were made that C.E.O.'s could only make a maximum of $300,000 a year, you would not have any shortage of very qualified men and women seeking the jobs.
maximum
Felix Gonzalez This is one of the most destructive hurricanes. We are on maximum alert.