Gilded Quote by John Ruskin Download Open image “That which seems to be wealth may in verity be only the gilded index of far reaching ruin” — John Ruskin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Gilded May Reaching Ruins Seems Wealth
“Every civilization built upon riches has died stillborn, ebbed away or fallen of its own weight. Once the inner eye glimpses wealth, the individual… — Margaret Lawrence Copy Share Image
Riches are always over estimated; the enjoyment they give is more in the pursuit than the possession. — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it. What noble enterprises have been checked and what fine souls have… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold. — Euripides Copy Share Image
Riches are oft by guilt and baseness earn'd; Or dealt by chance to shield a lucky knave, Or throw a cruel sunshine on a… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
“The treasures of wealthy treasures will be empty and you worry about few layer of your money” — Saad Khan Copy Share Image
You may have tangible wealth untold: Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be I had a Mother… — Strickland Gillian Copy Share Image
Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
The possession of wealth leads almost inevitably to its abuse. It is the chief, if not the only, cause of evils which desolate this… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
“Occult Theft,--Theft which hides itself even from itself, and is legal, respectable, and cowardly,--corrupts the body and soul of man, to the last fibre… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Mighty of heart, mighty of mind, magnanimous-to be this is indeed to be great in life. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Life is a magic vase filled to the brim, so made that you cannot dip from it nor draw from it; but it overflows… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
As in the instances of alchemy, astrology, witchcraft, and other such popular creeds, political economy, has a plausible idea at the root of it. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I am far more provoked at being thought foolish by foolish people, than pleased at being thought sensible by sensible people; and the average… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
When we build ... let it not be for present delights nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place as if you meant to spend your life there, never omitting an… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“You may trust to the truth of my sympathy; but you must remember that I am engaged in the investigation of enormous religious and… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
And remember, child, that nothing is ever done beautifully, which is done in rivalship; or nobly, which is done in pride. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The world is full of vulgar Purists, who bring discredit on all selection by the silliness of their choice; and this the more, because… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In the later nineteenth century, the tops of skyscrapers often took the shape of domes, surmounted by jaunty gilded lanterns; later came ziggurats, mausoleums,… — Brendan Gill Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'm dazzled by how modern and fabulous we are, and how easy everything can be for us; that's the gilded glow of technology,… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
The gilded sheath of pity sometimes covers the dagger of envy. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly rising o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes, Youth… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
All that glitters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life has sold But my outside to behold:… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Oft has good nature been the fool's defence, And honest meaning gilded want of sense. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Theres something unique about the United States, a sense of individual rights and freedoms, and a sense of social and civic responsibility that we… — George Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
The clothes that fire up my emotions are colorful and 'different' pieces. My eye still picks out gilded-cloque glamour from among Burberry's streamlined trench… — Suzy Menkes Copy Share Image
Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague, the engineer of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the parent of envy, the… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
Holland is a dream, Monsieur, a dream of gold and smoke-smokier by day, more gilded by night. And night and day that dream is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Nods from the Gilded pointers - Nods from the Seconds slim - Decades of Arrogance between The Dial life - And Him - — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image