Gaudy Quotes

39 quotes by 36 authors

There be delights that will fetch the day about from sun to sun and rock the tedious year as in a delightful dream ... For… — J. D. Sedding
This show does something very special for the gay community. There's a message hidden inside the totally gaudy package that is so fun to watch.… — Jesse Tyler Ferguson
A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something… — H. L. Mencken
Bees sip honey from flowers and hum their thanks when they leave. The gaudy butterfly is sure that the flowers owe thanks to him. — Rabindranath Tagore
The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day Is crept into the bosom of the sea. — William Shakespeare
Those whose days are consumed in the low pursuits of avarice, or the gaudy frivolties of fashion, unobservant of nature's lovelinessof demarcation, nor on which… — Aristotle
Dark City Blue is a freight train of a thriller crashing through some madhouse city night while a bomb's ticking down to zero. It's the… — Trent Jamieson
To be closed from everything, and yet to feel, to think...This is the truth of hell, stripped of its gaudy medievalisms. This loss of contact. — Joanne Harris
Delusions, errors and lies are like huge, gaudy vessels, the rafters of which are rotten and worm-eaten, and those who embark in them are fated… — Gautama Buddha
We Jews, thank God, have nothing to do with the East. . . . The Islamic soul must be broomed out of Eretz-Yisrael. . .… — Ze'ev Jabotinsky
In striving for the best, in losing onself in others, one is lifted above the common material furniture of life, above the gaudy trappings and… — Olympia Brown
Imagine (if you dare) a whimsical marriage of Lord Dunsany and S.J. Perelman, and you have something approaching the tales of Rhys Hughes, filled with… — T. E. D. Klein
As for Lindbergh, another eminent servant of science, all he proved by his gaudy flight across the Atlantic was that God takes care of those… — H. L. Mencken
Costly thy habit [dress] as thy purse can buy; But not expressed in fancy - rich, not gaudy. For the apparel oft proclaims the man. — William Shakespeare
I am a prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there… — Italo Calvino
The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But by comparison to the gaudy… — John Gunther
A pair of jaybirds came up from nowhere, whirled up on the blast like gaudy scraps of cloth or paper and lodged in the mulberries,… — William Faulkner
In these gaudy times, we think we will shortly reach the point where everything is known, but the fact is we are ignoring the essential,… — Georges Rouault
I love crazy, gaudy bling. — Phillip Lim
Unformed people delight in the gaudy and in novelty. Cooked people delight in the ordinary. — Erik Naggum

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