Gilt Quotes

23 quotes by 22 authors

• Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your… — P T Barnum
• War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose superficial literary and… — George Bernard Shaw
• In Nature all is common, and no use is base. She keeps no selected elements done up in gilt papers for sensitive people. — Joel Dorman Steele
• Today is one of those excellent January partly cloudies in which light chooses an unexpected part of the landscape to trick out in gilt, and… — Annie Dillard
• Every human act can be disguised with a coating of gilt. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin; whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but… — Thomas Carlyle
• Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight. — Geoffrey Chaucer
• I think directors can become overly infatuated by gilt and gold, and the word 'lavish' and everything being magnificent. — Tom Hooper
• Civilization is only savagery silver-gilt. — H. Rider Haggard
• What is Time... That you speak of it so subserviently? Are we to be the slaves of the sun, that second-hand, overrated knob of gilt,… — Mervyn Peake
• But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols; the gilt comes off… — Gustave Flaubert
• Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn… — Mary Wollstonecraft
• Open the book. (The gilt rubs off the edges of the pages and pollinates the fingertips.) — Elizabeth Bishop
• For a moment Jack felt the strongest inclination to snatch up his little gilt chair and beat the white-faced man down with it... — Patrick O'Brian
• I felt instantly at home, and wanted only to dismiss Alistair, along with the rest of Justice Hall, that I might have a closer look… — Laurie R. King
• What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie? I, who was born in a naked land and bred in… — Robert E. Howard
• Jack looked out the window as they passed the Mormon temple, just outside the beltway near Connecticut Avenue. A decidedly odd-looking building, it had grandeur… — Tom Clancy
• I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas, as if whatever it was the pine boughs and… — Sylvia Plath
• But the helmet had gold decoration, and the bespoke armorers had made a new gleaming breastplate with useless gold ornamentation on it. Sam Vimes felt… — Terry Pratchett
• Favouring employment versus the financial markets is a decent policy; certainly not beneficial for the currency or the gilt market, but beneficial for the people. — Bill Gross

Who Wrote These Gilt Quotes

22 authors contributed a total of 23 Gilt Quotes as follows:

• 1 Gilt Quote by Patrick O'Brian
• 1 Gilt Quote by Laurie R. King
• 1 Gilt Quote by Robert E. Howard
• 1 Gilt Quote by Tom Clancy
• 1 Gilt Quote by Sylvia Plath
• 1 Gilt Quote by Terry Pratchett
• 1 Gilt Quote by Bill Gross
• 1 Gilt Quote by Vitruvius
• 1 Gilt Quote by English Proverb
• 1 Gilt Quote by P T Barnum
• 1 Gilt Quote by George Bernard Shaw
• 1 Gilt Quote by Joel Dorman Steele
• 1 Gilt Quote by Annie Dillard
• 1 Gilt Quote by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• 1 Gilt Quote by Thomas Carlyle
• 1 Gilt Quote by Geoffrey Chaucer
• 1 Gilt Quote by Tom Hooper
• 1 Gilt Quote by H. Rider Haggard
• 1 Gilt Quote by Mervyn Peake
• 1 Gilt Quote by Gustave Flaubert
• 1 Gilt Quote by Mary Wollstonecraft
• 1 Gilt Quote by Elizabeth Bishop