Gilding Quotes

14 quotes by 13 authors

Sometimes, perhaps, thou hearest another pray with much freedom and fluency, whilst thou canst hardly get out a few broken words. Hence thou art ready… — William Gurnall
What signifies, says some one, giving halfpence to beggars? they only lay it out in gin or tobacco. "And why should they be denied such… — Hester Lynch Piozzi
I am a showman by profession... and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me. — P T Barnum
I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives. — Hamlin Garland
At this sunset hour, the canyon walls are indescribably beautiful and I fear the magic of photography can never record what I see now. The… — Barry Goldwater
One is quite astonished to find how many things there are in the landscape, and in every object in it, one never noticed before. And… — Winston Churchill
Full many a glorious morn I have seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with… — William Shakespeare
The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers. — Gustave Flaubert
Rome was mud and smoky skies; the rank smell of the Tiber and the exotically spiced cooking fires of a hundred different nationalities. Rome was… — Marion Zimmer Bradley
He loved a book because it was a book; he loved its odor, its form, its title. What he loved in a manuscript was its… — Gustave Flaubert
Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding. — Samuel Johnson
Neither wisdom nor lilies require gilding. — Dillon Masters
Cut the crap rather than gilding the lily. — Darryl

Who Wrote These Gilding Quotes

13 authors contributed a total of 14 Gilding Quotes as follows: