Admiration Quote by John Ruskin

The devil has been painted swarthy, cloven-footed, horned, and hideous. Do we expect to see him in that shape? O, surely it would be…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

It is difficult to believe that even idiots ever succumbed to such transparent contradictions, to such gaudy processions of mere counter-words, to so vast…

— H. L. Mencken

“Damen had half expected a gaudy parade costume, but Laurent had always defined himself against the opulence of the court. And he did not…

— S.U. Pacat

Imagine (if you dare) a whimsical marriage of Lord Dunsany and S.J. Perelman, and you have something approaching the tales of Rhys Hughes, filled…

— Anonymous

Greatness, thou gaudy torment of out souls, The wise man's fetter, and the rage of fools.

— Thomas Otway

“But what I do love about this road is how the gaudy becomes grand, how tastelessness is a way of everyday life”

— Michael Zadoorian

Sometimes Italian fashion, especially in the summer, is bright and gaudy and tarty, so I'd be buying these bright pink and bright orange things,…

— Polly Walker

...no man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be lured upon…

— H. L. Mencken

Those whose days are consumed in the low pursuits of avarice, or the gaudy frivolties of fashion, unobservant of nature's lovelinessof demarcation, nor on…

— Aristotle

As for Lindbergh, another eminent servant of science, all he proved by his gaudy flight across the Atlantic was that God takes care of…

— H. L. Mencken

In these gaudy times, we think we will shortly reach the point where everything is known, but the fact is we are ignoring the…

— Georges Rouault

In striving for the best, in losing onself in others, one is lifted above the common material furniture of life, above the gaudy trappings…

— Olympia Brown