Embellishment Quotations

Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.

I'm happy with embellishment in a chunky Prada-esque way, but I'm not into sequins!

Uncommon expressions are a disfigurement rather than an embellishment of discourse.

Embellishment is an irresistible and consuming impulse, going back to the beginnings of human history. ... Probably the strongest motivating force is the simplest: the inability of almost everyone to ever leave well enough alone.

We have much to hope from the flowers.

But if there was embellishment, it only had to do with the facts.