Titles are tinsel, power a corrupter, glorya bubble, and excessive wealth a libel on its possessor. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Go out of the house to see the moon, and 't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I believe the message in the hymn “Rise Up, O Men of God” (Hymns, no. 324) is a plea, a call, a… — Robert L. Millet Copy Share Image
There is a frantic race to merchandise tinsel and trash under the guise of 'modernism.' — Raymond Loewy Copy Share Image
An Englishman, Irishman and Scotsman were invited to a Christmas party. The Englishman brought a bag of tinsel, the Scotsman brought a… — Frank Carson Copy Share Image
We expect too much at Christmas. It's got to be magical. It's got to go right. Feasting. Fun. The perfect present. All… — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
Silent night, holy night, when the bough flies from the tree and is hung everywhere, when from tables the crusts fly, when… — Ingeborg Bachmann Copy Share Image
A life of mere pleasure! A little while, in the spring-time of the senses, in the sunshine of prosperity, in the jubilee… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
All great humorists are sad... I cannot help seeing beyond the tinsel of humour, and recognising the pitiful basis of jest -… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
I fight against the gluttony of time with so many very amusing weapons with gestures and with three attitudes and with charming… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
Christmas is not in tinsel and lights and outward show. The secret lies in an inner glow. It's lighting a fire inside… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
someone had tried to warn me of the kind of catastrophe that is likely to occur when you involve yourself too closely… — Mary Deasy Copy Share Image
In every Christian's Heart, there is a cross and a throne, and the Christian is on the throne till he puts himself… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Life would be no better than candlelight tinsel and daylight rubbish if our spirits were not touched by what has been. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I've developed a way to separate myself from me being me, to me being the character. I can separate watching me, Tinsel… — Tinsel Korey Copy Share Image
Tinsel in February, tinsel in August. There are things in a man besides his reason. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
I've sold shoes, hawked newspapers, jerked sodas, gazed rapturously at the tinsel dream at the end of a runway from my usher's… — Burne Hogarth Copy Share Image
At Christmas time we couldn't afford tinsel, so we'd wait till grandpa sneezed. — Rodney Dangerfield Copy Share Image
Thought is a garment and the soul's a bride That cannot in that trash and tinsel hide: Hatred of God may bring… — William Butler Yeats 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
Oh, heart, let's never grow too old To smile anew, when Christmas comes, At tassels red and tinsel thread, And tarlatan bags… — Nancy Byrd Turner Copy Share Image
I knew that I would speak in the language of the vanquished No more durable than old customs, family rituals, Christmas tinsel,… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
