Tinsel Quotes
27 quotes by 25 authors
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How is Christmas regarded today? The legend of Santa Claus, the Christmas tree, the decorations of tinsel and mistletoe, and the giving of gifts all…
— Howard W. Hunter
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Time, which runs through the world like an endless tinsel thread, seemed to pass through the centre of this room and through the centre of…
— Robert Musil
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There is a frantic race to merchandise tinsel and trash under the guise of 'modernism.'
— Raymond Loewy
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Go out of the house to see the moon, and't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The ribbons! The wrappings! The tags! And the tinsel! The trimmings! The trappings!
— Dr. Seuss
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Current among men, Like coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Oh, heart, let's never grow too old To smile anew, when Christmas comes, At tassels red and tinsel thread, And tarlatan bags f sugarplums.
— Nancy Byrd Turner
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If you choose the liberty and pride and strength of the single soul, and the free fraternization of men, as the purpose which your life…
— Voltairine de Cleyre
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Titles are tinsel, power a corrupter, glorya bubble, and excessive wealth a libel on its possessor.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.
— Oscar Levant
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Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and reindeers, but there must be no mention of the man whose birthday…
— Ronald Reagan
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For instance," said the boy again, "if Christmas trees were people and people were Christmas trees, we'd all be chopped down, put up in the…
— Norton Juster
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God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of "parties" with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we…
— Sylvia Plath
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You couldn't make yourself stop feeling a certain way, no matter what the other person did. You had to just wait. Eventually the feeling went…
— Elizabeth Strout
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Obstinate are the trammels, but my heart aches when I try to break them. Freedom is all I want, but to hope for it I…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Oho, now I know what you are. You are an advocate of Useful Knowledge.... Well, allow me to introduce myself to you as an advocate…
— Robertson Davies
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She's not my type,' Carter says. 'So what is your type?' 'Tall, skinny, black hair, blue eyes, freckly nose. Blue tinsel wig and snowflakes optional.'…
— Cathy Cassidy
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Unfortunately, the headlights of the car were bright enough for them to see Mae's outfit quite clearly. "Oh my God," said Nick, and shut his…
— Sarah Rees Brennan
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Christmas is not in tinsel and lights and outward show. The secret lies in an inner glow. It's lighting a fire inside the heart. Good…
— Wilferd Peterson
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Grief is a room without doors - but somehow, with its tinsel and cliches, Christmas finds a way in.
— Simon Van Booy
Who Wrote These Tinsel Quotes
25 authors contributed a total of 27 Tinsel Quotes as follows: