Gilded Quotes

• But you see, that's the gilded prison of fashion. We're riding in private jets, and meantime I was so incredibly, painfully sad and lonely.

  Janice Dickinson

  Fashion, Lonely, Riding

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• We are with you in this work. Workingmen must form a party of their own, take charge of the government, dispose gilded fraud, and put honest toil in power.

  Denis Kearney

  Party, Government, Toil

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• For a man who has compared himself to Theodore Roosevelt and the nation's challenges to those of the Gilded Age, Obama put forward a tepid agenda.

  Ron Fournier

  Men, Challenges, Age

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• So we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh at gilded butterflies.

  William Shakespeare

  Butterfly, Ebb And Flow, Laughing

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 5, sc. 3, l. 8

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• A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Talent, Mediocre, Tombs

  'Afterthoughts' (1931) 'Art and Letters'

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• True beauty lies not upon gilded veneers,
  But found in the soul within.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Lying, Soul, True Beauty

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• All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life hath sold But my outside to behold: Gilded tombs do worms enfold.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Men

  William Shakespeare (2010). “The Merchant of Venice”, p.52, Palgrave Macmillan

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• I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver. Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her.

  Oscar Wilde

  Stars, Science, Moon

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.665, GENERAL PRESS

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• Liberty? Why it doesn't exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.

  Aldous Huxley

  Liberty, World, Cages

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• The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.

  Mark Twain

  Beautiful, Lying, Perfection

  "The Stolen White Elephant: Etc". Book by Mark Twain, p. 220-221, 1882.

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• It is part of wisdom never to revisit a wilderness, for the more golden the lily, the more certain that someone has gilded it

  Aldo Leopold

  Lilies, Golden, Wilderness

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.141, Oxford University Press, USA

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• All that glitters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life has sold But my outside to behold: Gilded tombs do worms enfold Had you been as wise as bold, Your in limbs, in judgment old, Your answer had not been in'scroll'd Fare you well: your suit is cold.' Cold, indeed, and labour lost: Then, farewell, heat and welcome, frost!

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Farewell, Men

  William Shakespeare (2014). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Deluxe Annotated: Suitable for Home Reading, Academic Study, and Dramatic Productions”, p.615, BookBaby

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• We will all laugh at gilded butterflies.

  William Shakespeare

  Butterfly, Laughing

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• Stardom can be a gilded slavery.

  Helen Hayes

  Slavery, Stardom

  Helen Hayes (2014). “On Reflection: An Autobiography”, p.233, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The gilded sheath of pity sometimes covers the dagger of envy.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Envy, Daggers, Sometimes

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• The Reagan-Bush years have exalted private gain over public obligation, special interests over the common good, wealth and fame over work and family. The 1980s ushered in a Gilded Age of greed and selfishness, of irresponsibility and excess, and of neglect.

  William J. Clinton

  Years, Greed, Age

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• The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Average, Civilization

  Mark Twain Laughing 1904, #370 (p. 98)

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• Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague, the engineer of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the parent of envy, the original of vices, the moth of holiness, the blinder of hearts, turning medicines into maladies, and remedies into diseases.

  Thomas Brooks

  Mother, Lying, Heart

  Thomas Brooks (2001). “Works of Thomas Brooks, Volume 5 of 6”, p.4, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Her beauty was sold for an old man's gold. She's a bird in a gilded cage.

  Arthur J. Lamb

  Beauty, Men, Bird

  "A Bird in a Gilded Cage" (song) (1900)

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• The Obamas, especially Michelle, have radiated the sense that Americans do not appreciate what they sacrifice by living in a gilded cage. They've forgotten Rule No. 1 of politics: No one sheds tears for anyone lucky enough to live at the White House.

  Maureen Dowd

  Sacrifice, White, Appreciate

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• 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, and I marvel at it all the time.

  Susan Orlean

  Technology, Fabulous, Sometimes

  "Facts of Life". www.newyorker.com. December 8, 2010.

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• No, no, no, no! Come, let's away to prison: We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage: When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down, And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too, Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out; And take upon's the mystery of things, As if we were God's spies: and we'll wear out, In a wall'd prison, packs and sects of great ones, That ebb and flow by the moon.

  William Shakespeare

  Wall, Butterfly, Blessing

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 5, sc. 3, l. 8

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• The Germany I was enthused with was more old fashioned and kind of romantic. I just got there, and the next thing you know, I had this huge gilded album. It was kind of an amazing experience because I didn't intend it to be that way.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Germany, Albums, Way

  "Operatic Pop Singer Rufus Wainwright in Concert". The NPR.org Interview, www.npr.org. June 9, 2007.

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• For although nepenthe has calmed me, I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men. This I have known ever since I stretched out my fingers to the abomination within that great gilded frame; stretched out my fingers and touched a cold and unyielding surface of polished glass.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Men, Glasses, Unyielding

  H. P. Lovecraft (2016). “The Outsider, Pickman’s Model, The Rats in the Walls, The Silver Key”, p.10, H. P. Lovecraft

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• O Spirit of the Summertime! Bring back the roses to the dells; The swallow from her distant clime, The honey-bee from drowsy cells. Bring back the friendship of the sun; The gilded evenings, calm and late, When merry children homeward run, And peeping stars bid lovers wait. Bring back the singing; and the scent Of meadowlands at dewy prime;- Oh, bring again my heart's content, Thou Spirit of the Summertime!

  William Allingham

  Summer, Running, Stars

  William Allingham (1865). “Fifty Modern Poems”, p.49

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