Pun Quote by Eric Idle

“We must not touch our idols; the gilt sticks to our fingers.”

— Gustave Flaubert

Try your skill in gilt first, then in gold

— English Proverb

“When Reacher Gilt talks about freedom, he means his, not anyone else's.”

— Terry Pratchett

Quicksilver is used for many purposes; without it, neither silver nor brass can be properly gilt.

— Anonymous

Every human act can be disguised with a coating of gilt.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Civilization is only savagery silver-gilt.

— H. Rider Haggard

What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie? I, who was born in a naked land and bred…

— Robert E. Howard

Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

Open the book. (The gilt rubs off the edges of the pages and pollinates the fingertips.)

— Elizabeth Bishop

In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.

— Alan Perlis

“Prizing elegance, sweet emotions, and fantasy more than morals and truth; wallowing in fleeting romance rather than trying to give meaning to life, when…

— novala takemoto

“My cairns were obvious, pretentious, rococo.”

— John Hodgman