Gilded Quote by Logan Pearsall Smith Download Open image “A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent” — Logan Pearsall Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Gilded Gilded Tomb Mediocre Mediocre Talent Talent Tomb Mediocre
What is Fortune, what is Fame? Futile gold and phantom name- Riches buried in a cave, Glory written on a grave. — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life hath sold But my outside to behold:… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The purest treasure mortal times afford, is spotless reputation; that away, men are but gilded loam or painted clay. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Remember that Divinity is the true self of Man. It cannot be sold for gold; neither can it be heaped up as are the… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
The wealthiest places in the world are not gold mines, oil fields, diamond mines or banks. The wealthiest place is the cemetery. There lies… — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image
The fame of the rich man dies with him; the fame of the treasure, and not of the man who possessed it, remains. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
But tell me: how did gold get to be the highest value? Because it is uncommon and useless and gleaming and gentle in its… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“To be rich and talented at the same time is rare but possible, but the most talented; the genius, is the one crippled and… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Once a person gave his talent to the world, the world put a stamp upon it. The talent was not a personal possession any… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection -even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano -is what alone gives a meaning… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
The ladies who try to keep their beauty are the ladies who lose it. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
One's own vanities and humiliations I find a delicious subject for conversation. Things said of me behind my back I don't enjoy, and don't… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Whiskey has killed more men than bullets, but most men would rather be full of whiskey than bullets. — Logan Pearsall Smith 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
“Have you not sometimes noted, When we unlock some long-disuséd room With heavy dust and soiling mildew filled, Where never foot of man has… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I’m not your gilded prince with the gilded chairs, Letty,” Geoff said simply. “I couldn’t be if I tried.” “I wouldn’t want you to… — Lauren Willig 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
