The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In the later nineteenth century, the tops of skyscrapers often took the shape of domes, surmounted by jaunty gilded lanterns; later came… — Brendan Gill Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'm dazzled by how modern and fabulous we are, and how easy everything can be for us; that's the gilded glow… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
The gilded sheath of pity sometimes covers the dagger of envy. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly rising o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
All that glitters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life has sold But my outside… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Oft has good nature been the fool's defence, And honest meaning gilded want of sense. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Theres something unique about the United States, a sense of individual rights and freedoms, and a sense of social and civic responsibility… — George Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
The clothes that fire up my emotions are colorful and 'different' pieces. My eye still picks out gilded-cloque glamour from among Burberry's… — Suzy Menkes Copy Share Image
Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague, the engineer of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the parent of… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
Holland is a dream, Monsieur, a dream of gold and smoke-smokier by day, more gilded by night. And night and day that… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Nods from the Gilded pointers - Nods from the Seconds slim - Decades of Arrogance between The Dial life - And Him - — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
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… — William Finnegan Copy Share Image
That which seems to be wealth may in verity be only the gilded index of far reaching ruin — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver. Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Yet, even for us, there is left some loveliness of environment, and the dullness of tutors and professors matters very little when… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is the Harvest Moon! On gilded vanes and roofs of villages, on woodland crests and their aerial neighborhoods of nests deserted,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Happy those early days when I Shined in my Angel-infancy. Before I understood this place Appointed for my second race, Or taught… — Henry Vaughan Copy Share Image
Cages come in lots of different colors and shapes. Some are gilded, while others have a slamming door. But golden handcuffs are… — Amy Harmon Copy Share Image
Chrysanthemums from gilded argosy Unload their gaudy senseless merchandise. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
