Gilded Quotes

Gilded Quote of the day

The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.

Chrysanthemums from gilded argosy Unload their gaudy senseless merchandise.

Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?

Liberty? Why it doesn't exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.

What worked yesterday is the gilded cage of tomorrow.

All the world's indeed a stage And we are merely players Performers and portrayers Each another's audience outside the gilded cage

Die for adultery! No: The wren goes to't, and the small gilded fly does lecher in my sight

Let us prefer the lonely cottage, while blest with liberty, to gilded palaces, surrounded with the ensigns of slavery.

Stardom can be a gilded slavery.

The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.

Her beauty was sold for an old man's gold. She's a bird in a gilded cage.

A gilded No is more satisfactory than a dry Yes.

We are with you in this work. Workingmen must form a party of their own, take charge of the government, dispose gilded fraud, and put honest toil in power.

Boasting, like gilded armour, is very different inside from outside.

For a man who has compared himself to Theodore Roosevelt and the nation's challenges to those of the Gilded Age, Obama put forward a tepid agenda.

A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent

All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life hath sold But my outside to behold: Gilded tombs do worms enfold.

So we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh at gilded butterflies.

We will all laugh at gilded butterflies.

The gilded sheath of pity sometimes covers the dagger of envy.

Nods from the Gilded pointers - Nods from the Seconds slim - Decades of Arrogance between The Dial life - And Him -

A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.

How terrible it is to have no cares, no longings. I do not fit. I feel too deeply and want too much. As cages go, it is a gilded one, but I shall not live well in it or any cage for that matter.

Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded.

Oft has good nature been the fool's defence, And honest meaning gilded want of sense.

The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.

Ah! fraudful malice! how shall wisdom's care Escape the poison of thy gilded snare!

I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver. Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her.

Be not with honor's gilded baits beguil'd, Nor think ambition wise, because 'tis brave; For though we like it, as a forward child, 'Tis so unsound, her cradle is the grave.

Sometimes I'm dazzled by how modern and fabulous we are, and how easy everything can be for us; that's the gilded glow of technology, and I marvel at it all the time.

A market economy cannot thrive absent the well-being of average people, even in a gilded age.

It was as if the sensory overload that is American life had somehow led to sensory deprivation, a gilded weariness, where everything is permitted and nothing appreciated.

That which seems to be wealth may in verity be only the gilded index of far reaching ruin

Sept. 11 jolted America out of its second gilded age.

Yea, Paris is a festive ton -- a festive Ton for all! Skate o'er on joy -- Thin crust of gilded, polished joy! What matters it if Hell's beneath?

Cages come in lots of different colors and shapes. Some are gilded, while others have a slamming door. But golden handcuffs are still handcuffs.

It is part of wisdom never to revisit a wilderness, for the more golden the lily, the more certain that someone has gilded it

Learning to be a lady / is like learning / to live within a shell, / to be a crustacean encased / in a small white / uncomfortable world.

The gilded spiralOf longings within.Our very own cathedralThat points persistently to heaven.

It was the age of confidence. Arrogance was epidemic.

He knew there was only a slight difference between an armed guard and an escort, but sometimes that difference separated the honored and the condemned.

The noise around me blurs, and all I can focus on is his lips and breath and presence.

She can go places we cannot, associate with people we cannot, understand things about society types and women that we never can. (Why Mr. Burke hires Violet Strange.)

Setting that little girl loose in her society would be like putting a fox in with the chickens. (Violet Strange's detective boss.)

I’m a man of words, yet you rob me of them every single time.

This isn't London, sweetheart. This is New York City and we can spot a fraud from a mile away.

A gold cage is still a cage.-King David IOh, go cry in a bag of money.-Queen Christina

Everyone has a weakness. Even a demigod.

...and here's a secret for you - everything beautiful is sad...gilded with impermanence...

Love was like a stock, Lizzie realized. You gambled on its paying off in the long run—but it could just as easily cost you everything.