"Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt……" — Geoffrey Chaucer

More Gilt Quotes

This quote is filed under Gilt Quotes, one of 23 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove… — P T Barnum
• War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by… — George Bernard Shaw
• In Nature all is common, and no use is base. She keeps no selected elements done up in gilt papers… — Joel Dorman Steele
• Today is one of those excellent January partly cloudies in which light chooses an unexpected part of the landscape to… — 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… — Thomas Carlyle
• 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… — Mervyn Peake
• But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our… — Gustave Flaubert
• Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt… — Mary Wollstonecraft
• Open the book. (The gilt rubs off the edges of the pages and pollinates the fingertips.) — Elizabeth Bishop

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