Top 96 Gilded Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on November 7, 2024.
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.
Oft has good nature been the fool's defence, And honest meaning gilded want of sense.
True beauty lies not upon gilded veneers,
But found in the soul within.
All the world's indeed a stage
And we are merely players
Performers and portrayers
Each another's audience outside the gilded cage
This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.
What worked yesterday is the gilded cage of tomorrow.
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.
Boasting, like gilded armour, is very different inside from outside.
Cages come in lots of different colors and shapes. Some are gilded, while others have a slamming door. But golden handcuffs are still handcuffs.
The Tiffany lamp is an American icon bridging the immigrants, settlement houses, and the slums of the Lower East Side and the wealthy industrialists of upper Manhattan, the Gilded Age and its excesses.
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.
Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded.
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.
Anecdotes are factoids of questionable provenance, burnished to a high gloss, often set in gilded venues and populated with familiar names as background atmosphere, purged of ambiguity in the interest of keeping the narrative flowing smoothly.
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?
Die for adultery! No: The wren goes to't, and the small gilded fly does lecher in my sight
Royalty mostly seem like members of some anachronistic faith, like the Amish, peculiar in gilded buggies.
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.
The Germany I was enthused with was more old fashioned and kind of romantic. I just got there, and the next thing you know, I had this huge gilded album. It was kind of an amazing experience because I didn't intend it to be that way.
We're seeing a new 'Gilded Age,' where inheritance is a deciding factor in who becomes the wealthiest.
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.
The clothes that fire up my emotions are colorful and 'different' pieces. My eye still picks out gilded-cloque glamour from among Burberry's streamlined trench coats or a hand-printed coat from Dries Van Noten.
The gilded sheath of pity sometimes covers the dagger of envy.
I tried to be a good wife, but I was lost in my gilded cage.
Chrysanthemums from gilded argosy
Unload their gaudy senseless merchandise.
We will all laugh at gilded butterflies.
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.
So we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh at gilded butterflies.
The Trump administration is shaping up to be one of the most corrupt since the Gilded Age.
Poor-country surf communities can be complex and, to some extent, leveling. The fisherman's kid is competing head to head with the plutocrat's gilded son. Your father can't buy you a good frontside hack.
Her beauty was sold for an old man's gold. She's a bird in a gilded cage.
Tom has a gilded life which I have had a glimpse of. Yes, he does travel in private jets.
I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver. Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her.
A market economy cannot thrive absent the well-being of average people, even in a gilded age.
But you see, that's the gilded prison of fashion. We're riding in private jets, and meantime I was so incredibly, painfully sad and lonely.
I'm a big fan of the Pre-Raphaelites. Millais, Edward Burne-Jones, and I realised recently that my music is Pre-Raphaelite in a certain way, in that it reinvents an older era and romanticises it, puts it in this gilded frame.
Liberty? Why it doesn't exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
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.
For wheresoe'er I turn my ravish'd eyes, Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, Poetic fields encompass me around, And still I seem to tread on classic ground.
It is part of wisdom never to revisit a wilderness, for the more golden the lily, the more certain that someone has gilded it
Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague, the engineer of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the parent of envy, the original of vices, the moth of holiness, the blinder of hearts, turning medicines into maladies, and remedies into diseases.
The clothes that fire up my emotions are colorful and "different" pieces. My eye still picks out gilded-cloque glamour from among Burberry's streamlined trench coats or a hand-printed coat from Dries Van Noten.
And the sun had on a crown
Wrought of gilded thistledown,
And a scarf of velvet vapor
And a raveled rainbow gown;
And his tinsel-tangled hair
Tossed and lost upon the air
Was glossier and flossier
Than any anywhere.
A gilded No is more satisfactory than a dry Yes.
A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent
A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.
Let us prefer the lonely cottage, while blest with liberty, to gilded palaces, surrounded with the ensigns of slavery.
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.
Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly rising o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes, Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm.
In outward show so splendid and so vain; 'tis but a gilded block without a brain.
The Obamas, especially Michelle, have radiated the sense that Americans do not appreciate what they sacrifice by living in a gilded cage. They've forgotten Rule No. 1 of politics: No one sheds tears for anyone lucky enough to live at the White House.
Nods from the Gilded pointers -
Nods from the Seconds slim -
Decades of Arrogance between
The Dial life -
And Him -
On my raw food diet, my skin shone bright like a gilded deity and my eyes glowed in a somewhat unearthly manner.
Ah! fraudful malice! how shall wisdom's care Escape the poison of thy gilded snare!
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.
Stardom can be a gilded slavery.
Sept. 11 jolted America out of its second gilded age.
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.
That which seems to be wealth may in verity be only the gilded index of far reaching ruin
As the hours crept by, the afternoon sunlight bleached all the books on the shelves to pale, gilded versions of themselves and warmed the paper and ink inside the covers so that the smell of unread words hung in the air.
