Adorn

Famous quotes containing the word adorn:

“The soft engravings which adorn the annuals give no idea of a stream in such a wilderness as this.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“A faithful lover is a character greatly out of date, and rarely now used but to adorn some romantic novel, or for a flourish on the stage. He passes now for a man of little merit, or one who knows nothing of the world.”
—Anonymous, U.S. women’s magazine contributor. Weekly Visitor or Ladies Miscellany, p. 20 (April 1803)

“You adorn me with your own opulence. May you never revoke all that you lent me!”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)