Charles Lamb Quotes

I love accessorizing with jewelry.

Fashion creates a bit of a dream

Oftentimes, my career as a model is based around glamour or creating a fantasy world. That in itself is not a bad thing, as I think art and inspiration has its place in society.

I love clothes and jewelry. I'm the fashion lady type.

I'm in a generation where MAC is the reigning brand for a lot of women - black, white, and other.

Many a necklace becomes a noose.

A minute analysis of life at once destroys that splendor which dazzles the imagination. Whatsoever grandeur can display, or luxury enjoy, is procured by offices of which the mind shrinks from the contemplation. All the delicacies of the table may be traced back to the shambles and the dunghill; all magnificence of building was hewn from the quarry, and all the pomp of ornament dug from among the damps and darkness of the mine.

Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation

I may be permitted, kind reader, to doubt whether you have ever been enclosed in a glass bottle, unless some vivid dream has teased you with such magical mishaps.

Mostly we just add to the piles of rainbow glass that's been blown off the exteriors of the cany-colored buildings.

Magic lives in curves, not angles.

More and more, so it seems to me, light is the beautifier of the building.

But thou that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation.

I could not conjure up one melancholy fancy upon a mutton chop and a glass of champagne.

Glamour is all about transcending this world and getting to an idealized, perfect place.

Fancy rules over two thirds of the universe, the past, and future, while reality is confined to the present

Silk does for the body what diamonds do for the hand.

Sometimes it just takes stronger eyeglasses to cure those who are in love--and someone with the ability to imagine a face or a figure twenty years older might perhaps pass through life quite undisturbed.

The music, and the banquet, and the wine-- The garlands, the rose odors, and the flowers, The sparkling eyes, and flashing ornaments-- The white arms and the raven hair--the braids, And bracelets; swan-like bosoms, and the necklace, An India in itself, yet dazzling not.

Like other beautiful things in this world, its end (that of a shaft) is to be beautiful; and, in proportion to its beauty, it receives permission to be otherwise useless. We do not blame emeralds and rubies because we cannot make them into heads of hammers.

Art is a never-ending dance of illusions.

A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.

The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself; that is impatient of all limit; that (as flame bends to flame) strives to link itself to some other image of kindred beauty or grandeur; to enshrine itself, as it were, in the highest forms of fancy, and to relieve the aching sense of pleasure by expressing it in the boldest manner.

Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes; When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes.

You may hang your walls with tapestry insread of whitewash or paper; or you may cover them with mosaic; or have them frescoed by a great painter: all this is not luxury, if it be done for beauty's sake, and not for show: it does not break our golden rule: Have nothing in your houses which you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.