Self-Adornment Quotes

I believe in glamour. I am in favor of a little vanity. I don't rely on just my genes.

Makeup should have one function only - to make you look better, to make you more attractive...Makeup is a luxury, so it should be fun...Making up is like telling yourself a secret.

I wore makeup when I was at school, and I wore makeup when glam started. I started wearing it again when punk started. I've always been drawn to wearing it. It's partly ritualistic, partly theatrical and partly just because I think I look better with it on.

Fashion is something that you can attach to yourself, put on, and through that interaction, the meaning of it is born.

By the care she lavishes on her toilet, by the concern she has for her beauty set off by her adornment, a woman regards herself as an object always trying to attract men's attention.

The youth who, like a woman, loves to adorn his person, has renounced all claim to wisdom and to glory; glory is due to those only who dare to associate with pain, and have trampled pleasure under their feet.

Any opportunity to adorn oneself is human, and accessories are an easy way to do it.

I'll be at charges for a looking-glass And entertain a score or two of tailors To study fashions to adorn my body: Since I am crept in favor with myself, I will maintain it with some little cost.

My design philosophy is to make women feel like peacocks.

I enjoy wearing pins, and nobody tells me to do it.

The adornment of the body is a human need. I don't see anything superficial about it unless your life becomes very materialistic.

I am a shopaholic, like to wear make-up, and believe in vanity.

If anyone should want to know my name, I am called Leah. And I spend all my time weaving garlands of flowers with my fair hands, t o please me when I stand before the mirror; my sister Rachel sits all the day long before her own, and never moves away. She loves to contemplate her lovely eyes; I love to use my hands to adorn myself: her joy is in reflection, mine in act.

I like anything with my face on it, just from an aesthetic point of view.

In all ages, far back into prehistory, we find human beings have painted and adorned themselves.