Gild Quotes

15 quotes by 14 authors

Charity is an ugly trick. It is a virtue grown by the rich on the graves of the poor. Unless it is accompanied by sincere… — Rebecca West
The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendour cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate; those soft intervals of unbended… — Samuel Johnson
The dandelions and buttercups gild all the lawn: the drowsy bee stumbles among the clover tops, and summer sweetens all to me. — James Russell Lowell
No matter what the cause, even though it be to conquer with tanks and planes and modern artillery some defenseless black population, there will be… — John T. Flynn
A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom. — Henry David Thoreau
Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw… — William Shakespeare
No man could bring himself to reveal his true character, and, above all, his true limitations as a citizen and a Christian, his true meannesses,… — H. L. Mencken
I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night. — John Dryden
Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden… — Susanna Moodie
Forget the dead, the past? O yet there are ghosts that may take revenge for it, memories that make the heart a tomb, regrets which… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
WhenTime shall turn those amber locks to grey, My verse again shall gild and make them gay. — Michael Drayton
It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful? — Mahatma Gandhi
My favorite way to cook trout is whole, bone-in, on the grill. The fish are stuffed with sliced lemons and herb sprigs, brushed with oil,… — Tom Douglas
Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of to-day, for the golden… — Susanna Moodie
Don't gild the lily. — Don't Gild The Lily

Who Wrote These Gild Quotes

14 authors contributed a total of 15 Gild Quotes as follows: