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- Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if… — 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… — 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… — Unknown Author
- Today is one of those excellent January partly cloudies in which light chooses an unexpected part of the landscape to trick out… — 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… — 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… — Mervyn Peake
- But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols; the… — 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… — Mary Wollstonecraft