Her beauty was sold for an old man's gold. She's a bird in a gilded cage. — Arthur J. Lamb Copy Share Image
“The river was gilded in every ripple with capricious, scintillating light.” — Ellis Peters 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
A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
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… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
“Ha! I wouldn’t have him now, were he gilded!” Mariah looked shocked. “Isn’t emasculation a bit harsh?” “Not gelded, dearest. Gilded, as… — Victoria Vane Copy Share Image
Swift flies our time on pinions fleet, Like vapours on the breeze; The transient bliss we now call sweet, The passing moments… — William Muir Copy Share Image
For wheresoe'er I turn my ravish'd eyes, Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, Poetic fields encompass me around, And still I… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The Germany I was enthused with was more old fashioned and kind of romantic. I just got there, and the next thing… — Rufus Wainwright 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
How like fish we are: ready, nay eager, to seize upon whatever new thing some wind of circumstance shakes down upon the… — Aldo Leopold 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
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
Reagan's story of freedom superficially alludes to the Founding Fathers, but its substance comes from the Gilded Age, devised by apologists for… — Bill Moyers 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
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
“But you will not spare a drop of pity because I am rich? We have death in our gilded courts, too. We… — Stefan Bachmann Copy Share Image
“Have you not sometimes noted, When we unlock some long-disuséd room With heavy dust and soiling mildew filled, Where never foot of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We often value the exterior and superficial aspect of things more than their inner reality. Bad manners taint everything even justice and… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
When I saw this Broken Kilometer, it reminded me of these 1,000 Buddhas. That piece is 1,000 one-meter gold rods, and this… — Hiroshi Sugimoto 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 said: 'Thou thing of patches, rings, Pins, necklaces and suchlike things, Disguiser of the female form, Thou paltry, gilded poisonous worm!” — William Blake 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
All the world's indeed a stage And we are merely players Performers and portrayers Each another's audience outside the gilded cage — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
And the sun had on a crown Wrought of gilded thistledown, And a scarf of velvet vapor And a raveled rainbow gown;… — James Whitcomb Riley Copy Share Image
But you see, that's the gilded prison of fashion. We're riding in private jets, and meantime I was so incredibly, painfully sad… — Janice Dickinson Copy Share Image
“I was the chief of security on this civilian behemoth. Yes, that’s right – I used a big word – try not… — Christina Engela 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
No gilded dome swells from the lowly roof to catch the morning or evening beam; but the love and gratitude of united… — Edward Everett Hale Copy Share Image
Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Over this year, familiarity had done its usual work, picking off the gilded paint one scratch at a time.” — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
So we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh at gilded butterflies. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
For a man who has compared himself to Theodore Roosevelt and the nation's challenges to those of the Gilded Age, Obama put… — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
My dear, dear Lord, The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation; that away Men are but gilded loan or painted… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
In the corrupted currents of this word offence's gilded hand may solve by justice, and oft, tis seen the wicked prize itself… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Here in the city she had gilded her nails. They shone. And she had put on a velvet dress, this soft red… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
It is part of wisdom never to revisit a wilderness, for the more golden the lily, the more certain that someone has… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
“When my name was announced and I walked onstage, I could clearly see the outline of a gilded cage. I knew that… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
