"Neither wisdom nor lilies require gilding." — Dillon Masters

More Gilding Quotes

This quote is filed under Gilding Quotes, one of 14 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• Sometimes, perhaps, thou hearest another pray with much freedom and fluency, whilst thou canst hardly get out a few broken… — William Gurnall
• What signifies, says some one, giving halfpence to beggars? they only lay it out in gin or tobacco. "And why… — 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,… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
• There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of… — Hamlin Garland
• At this sunset hour, the canyon walls are indescribably beautiful and I fear the magic of photography can never record… — Barry Goldwater
• One is quite astonished to find how many things there are in the landscape, and in every object in it,… — Winston Churchill
• Full many a glorious morn I have seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows… — William Shakespeare
• The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding… — Gustave Flaubert
• Rome was mud and smoky skies; the rank smell of the Tiber and the exotically spiced cooking fires of a… — Marion Zimmer Bradley
• He loved a book because it was a book; he loved its odor, its form, its title. What he loved… — Gustave Flaubert
• Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding. — Samuel Johnson

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