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The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hangings of white and blue linen were fastened with cords of fine white and purple material to silver rings on the marble pillars. Gold and silver couches were arranged on a mosaic pavement of porphyry, marble, mother-of-pearl, and other costly stones.
- Esther 1:6
I have decked my bed with coverings, with colored linen from Egypt.
- Proverbs 7:16
their pendants, bracelets, and veils;
- Isaiah 3:19
Unless one decorates one's house for oneself alone, best leave it bare, for other people are walleyed.
- DH Lawrence
An ugly candle that lights up a home is better than a beautiful lamp that merely decorates a room.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Looking around his hotel room not long before expiring: This wallpaper is killing me. One of us has to go.
- Oscar Wilde
Books are not made for furniture,but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
- Henry Ward Beecher
And unless one decorates one's house for oneself alone, best leave it bare, for other people are all wall-eyed.
- DH Lawrence
I have a dining room done in different shades of white, with white cushions embroidered in yellow silk: the effect is absolutely delightful and the room beautiful.
- Oscar Wilde
The Eisenhower Building - the furniture is mismatched; everything is just bad decor and bad quality. Everybody's looking down at their Blackberry. It's a really frantic, mismatched environment. But on the exterior, it's this whitewashed, gorgeous building. It's a fascinating contrast.
- Tony Hale
While in a vintage restaurant...the past isn't quaint while you're in it. Only at a safe distance, later, when you see it as decor, not as the shape your life's been squeezed into.
- Margaret Atwood