Gilded Quotes

50 quotes by 37 authors

Oft has good nature been the fool's defence, And honest meaning gilded want of sense. — William Shenstone
Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the… — Alexander Pope
Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly rising o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes, Youth on… — Thomas Gray
What is a throne? - a bit of wood gilded and covered in velvet. I am the state- I alone am here the representative of… — Napoleon Bonaparte
For a man who has compared himself to Theodore Roosevelt and the nation's challenges to those of the Gilded Age, Obama put forward a tepid… — Ron Fournier
But you see, that's the gilded prison of fashion. We're riding in private jets, and meantime I was so incredibly, painfully sad and lonely. — Janice Dickinson
Stardom can be a gilded slavery. — Helen Hayes
Sometimes I'm dazzled by how modern and fabulous we are, and how easy everything can be for us; that's the gilded glow of technology, and… — Susan Orlean
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 way, in that… — Rufus Wainwright
The Germany I was enthused with was more old fashioned and kind of romantic. I just got there, and the next thing you know, I… — Rufus Wainwright
All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life hath sold But my outside to behold: Gilded… — William Shakespeare
Out of the sea will rise Behemoth and Leviathan, and sail 'round the high-pooped galleys... Dragons will wander about the waste places, and the phoenix… — Oscar Wilde
So we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh at gilded butterflies. — William Shakespeare
How terrible it is to have no cares, no longings. I do not fit. I feel too deeply and want too much. As cages go,… — Libba Bray
As the hours crept by, the afternoon sunlight bleached all the books on the shelves to pale, gilded versions of themselves and warmed the paper… — Maggie Stiefvater
For although nepenthe has calmed me, I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still… — H P Lovecraft
No, no, no, no! Come, let's away to prison: We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage: When thou dost ask me blessing,… — William Shakespeare
We will all laugh at gilded butterflies. — William Shakespeare
It was as if the sensory overload that is American life had somehow led to sensory deprivation, a gilded weariness, where everything is permitted and… — J. Maarten Troost
My dear, dear Lord, The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation; that away Men are but gilded loan or painted clay... Mine honor… — William Shakespeare

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