Gilding Quotes
14 quotes by 13 authors
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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
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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
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I am a showman by profession... and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me.
— P T Barnum
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding.
— Samuel Johnson
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Neither wisdom nor lilies require gilding.
— Dillon Masters
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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: