Gilded Quotes

50 quotes by 37 authors

Cages come in lots of different colors and shapes. Some are gilded, while others have a slamming door. But golden handcuffs are still handcuffs. — Amy Harmon
The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of… — Charles Dickens
The Obamas, especially Michelle, have radiated the sense that Americans do not appreciate what they sacrifice by living in a gilded cage. They've forgotten Rule… — Maureen Dowd
A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent — Logan Pearsall Smith
Her beauty was sold for an old man's gold. She's a bird in a gilded cage. — Arthur J. Lamb
Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague, the engineer of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the parent of envy, the original… — Thomas Brooks
O Spirit of the Summertime! Bring back the roses to the dells; The swallow from her distant clime, The honey-bee from drowsy cells. Bring back… — William Allingham
Die for adultery! No: The wren goes to't, and the small gilded fly does lecher in my sight — William Shakespeare
What worked yesterday is the gilded cage of tomorrow. — Peter Block
We are with you in this work. Workingmen must form a party of their own, take charge of the government, dispose gilded fraud, and put… — Denis Kearney
The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted. — Mark Twain
For wheresoe'er I turn my ravish'd eyes, Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, Poetic fields encompass me around, And still I seem to tread… — Joseph Addison
How like fish we are: ready, nay eager, to seize upon whatever new thing some wind of circumstance shakes down upon the river of time!… — Aldo Leopold
Yet, even for us, there is left some loveliness of environment, and the dullness of tutors and professors matters very little when one can loiter… — Oscar Wilde
I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver. Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her. — Oscar Wilde
The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and… — Mark Twain
Today, as in the Gilded Age, we live in a world where a morality of personal responsibility rubs shoulders with a culture of greed and… — Charles Derber
The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed… — Charles Caleb Colton
Boasting, like gilded armour, is very different inside from outside. — Diogenes
Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded. — Mark Twain

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