“The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Literary translation is not merely an act of picking words from one language and keeping it by dipping in the vessel of another language. Those words need to be rinsed, washed, carved and decorated as much as possible.”
― Suman Pokhrel

“You cannot move forward in the real world
if you cannot see the real world.
You cannot find the beauty in the world
if all you see is its adornment.

Autumn comes.
Autumn falls.
Autumn leaves.
The world turns fire
and burns off all that is fading.”
― Shellen Lubin

“But he meant beauty in the sense of its organic connection to the material. And this is the connection that, for me, separates true stylists from decorators. The decorators are easy to recognize. That's why critics love them so.”
― Sidney Lumet, Making Movies

“Where utility ends and decoration begins is perfection.”
― Jack Gardner, Words Are Not Things

“Smile once a while; even if life tastes like bitter bile, just file out your teeth and cheeks and take a mile of sweet smiles... Smile, make it your life's style. Decorate your face with piles of smiles!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

“I like you. Therefore I will decorate you with qualities you don't have.”
― Aleksandra Ninkovic, Better to be able to love than to be loveable

“The bed is just a decoration in a busy man's bedroom.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes

“الحسد ليس نقمة إنه أكبر وسام يضعه الفاشلون على صدور الناجحين”
― علي أمين, دعاء

“Never be decieved by exterior decorations, some monsters go about on suit and tie and of course a Bible.”
― Paul Bamikole

“Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.”
― E M Forster

“Sadly kitchens often fall into the decorative trap of defaulting to basics: plain white units, tiled splash-back behind the sink or hob and possibly a large jolly-coloured standalone fridge-freezer as the one note of individuality.”
― Michelle Ogundehin, Happy Inside: How to harness the power of home for health and happiness

“No amount of fancy decor will make the slightest bit of difference to your ability to sleep soundly if you do not take heed of what you do before you get anywhere near your bedroom. Only once this has been addressed, can this room become one of your most powerful allies in pursuit of wellbeing, happiness and good health.”
― Michelle Ogundehin, Happy Inside: How to harness the power of home for health and happiness

“Raub’s quarters were gross. They were decorated like something out of a hunting lodge crossed with a whore’s boudoir from a bad Western film.”
― Jennifer Foehner Wells, Inheritance

“Decoration is primarily concerned with superficialities—i.e. changing the surface of a thing, and not its substance—and must therefore occupy its own space separate from art...”
― Ryan Muldowney and Jacob Muldowney

“There are still no curtains in the rooms, still no sign of eccentricity.”
― Alain Bremond-Torrent, running is flying intermittently

“Wear a hat and your hair goes flat.”
― Alain Bremond-Torrent, running is flying intermittently

“Remember, having a good head on our shoulders is not just for decoration purposes”
― Sunday Adelaja

“our mission does not consist in our appearance, a beautiful haircut or in showing off our body, decorations and clothes”
― Sunday Adelaja

“On the top rack is a cooled and decorated seven-layered 'opera' cake. Her client- the Peruvian ambassador- had requested a "tropical" theme for a dinner party dessert. Avis had based the decoration on the view through the kitchen window, re-creating in lime, lemongrass, and mint frostings the curling backyard flora, curving foliage shaped like tongues and hearts, fat spines bisecting the leaves.”
― Diana Abu-Jaber, Birds of Paradise

“The oblong, one-layer cake was coated in powder-pink frosting. Around the sides of the cake the pink was decorated with white frills resembling lace. Both the top left corner and the bottom right corner of the upper surface were adorned with lilac roses and white rosebuds tipped with strawberry pink. And across the center of the cake, starting at the bottom corner on the left and sloping up towards the top corner on the right, was the baby's name in lilac cursive script: "Perfect.”
― Gaile Parkin, Baking Cakes in Kigali

“That is the place we should
put the star, there it is good.
So that everyone could see
the light of the Christmas tree!”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, The Sea Sons: The Enchanted Valley

“White contains a balance of all colors in the spectrum, representing both the positive and negative aspects of all colors. Given it’s properties and undeniable associations with purity, white tends to amplify and reflect other colors and textures in it’s path. This is probably why I’m often asked to design white on white florals for marketing initiatives. The blooms add a delicate and feminine touch to the brand message, while allowing the product or idea to stand tall and look high-end.”
― Chantal Larocque, Bold & Beautiful Paper Flowers: More Than 50 Easy Paper Blooms and Gorgeous Arrangements You Can Make at Home

“There was no sugar! That was better for our health; no need to taste such a boring thing. Sugar is one of these decorative ingredients; those ingredients that deceive you by changing the bitterness of reality into some dazzling bites of sweetness.”
― Noha Alaa El-Din, It's Hard to Please Vandanya: The Suitcase

“Make sure you wear it on the left side. That means you're single and ready for new adventures. 'Left is for looking, right is for cooking.'"
Lisbeth giggles, almost blushes, and lifts her hand to her head reflexively. She's seen women on the street with flowers behind their ears, along the road, in stores, on their way home from the fields carrying baskets of cassava, the yellowish white root that's used in every meal. She's seen the red hibiscus, the bulging ginger blossom, the bewitchingly aromatic frangipani behind the ears of men too, but she wasn't aware of this secret code for courting.”
― Anne Østby, Pieces of Happiness

“Nothing makes me sadder than seeing pristine children's rooms decorated in the same style as the rest of the adult home – it's as if the children are not really allowed to exist.”
― Michelle Ogundehin, Happy Inside: How to harness the power of home for health and happiness

“Looking at a plain wall is akin to staring blankly into space. We have a fundamental need for visual nourishment and stimulation in our homes, for our eyes to dance lightly over surfaces and not find them wanting.”
― Michelle Ogundehin, Happy Inside: How to harness the power of home for health and happiness

“The pleasure of a freshly-dressed bed is one of the finer things in life, and yet many stumble here, not sure what can go with what, or whether it's okay to mismatch pillows and duvet cover. The simple answer to this is that anything goes.”
― Michelle Ogundehin, Happy Inside: How to harness the power of home for health and happiness

“My chocolate strawberry chiffon pie was a hit not to be missed: a chocolate crust filled with a pink strawberry custard studded with bits of fresh strawberry. I will make it again and this time I'll decorate it with sugared basil leaves and strawberry hearts. For my savory pie, I'm making a mixed mushroom filling with fresh herbs and taleggio, encased in a double crust that is studded with fresh rosemary and thyme. To decorate it, I've cut out of rolled an intricate forest scene and affixed it to the top crust with a wash of egg white.”
― Jessa Maxwell, The Golden Spoon

“[...] My pockets had always puzzled Weena, but at the last she had concluded that they were an eccentric kind of vase for floral decoration. [...]”
― H. G. Wells, The Time Machine