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  • I love crazy, gaudy bling. -- Phillip Lim
  • There are no more Elizabeth Taylors. You could be fascinated by her, she lived so many lives, she lived far, she loved the jewels; she had gaudy taste but she had extraordinary talent. -- Andre Leon Talley
  • I only ever play Vegas one night at a time. It's a hideous, gaudy place; it may not be the end of the world per se, but you can certainly see it from there. -- Robin Williams
  • You know you can get gaudy with something, and they didn't do that. To me, I think it's very tasteful, well done, with the silver and gold and the engraving. I think it's very tasteful. -- Earl Scruggs
  • I don't know much about auctions. I sometimes go to previews and see art sardined into ugly rooms. I've gawked at the gaudy prices, and gaped at well-clad crowds of happy white people conspicuously spending hundreds of millions of dollars. -- Jerry Saltz
  • A lot of people have said I'd have probably done better in my career if I hadn't looked so cheap and gaudy. But I dress to be comfortable for me, and you shouldn't be blamed because you want to look pretty. -- Dolly Parton
  • 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, and when I got home, I'd just go, 'What was I thinking? I can't wear this!' -- Polly Walker
  • It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned. -- Camille Paglia
  • I've been watching 'Pawn Stars' every week for the last year. I like learning about the history behind the items that people bring into the pawnshop. I actually pawned a ring once that a woman sent to me while I was on 'Jerry Springer.' It was really gaudy. -- Steve Wilkos
  • The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But by comparison to the gaudy days, this is small-time stuff. Chicago is as full of crooks as a saw with teeth, but the era when they ruled the city is gone forever. -- John Gunther
  • Chrysanthemums from gilded argosy Unload their gaudy senseless merchandise. -- Oscar Wilde
  • Unformed people delight in the gaudy and in novelty. Cooked people delight in the ordinary. -- Erik Naggum
  • Greatness, thou gaudy torment of out souls, The wise man's fetter, and the rage of fools. -- Thomas Otway
  • It's gaudy, ugly, and in terribly bad taste. It does, however, suit my personality almost perfectly. -- David Eddings
  • What is a butterfly? At best He's but a caterpiller drest. The gaudy Fop's his picture just. -- Benjamin Franklin
  • This film Phantom takes everything that's wrong with Broadway and puts it on the big screen in a gaudy splat. -- Stephanie Zacharek
  • Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the rose, with sweets in every fold. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Bees sip honey from flowers and hum their thanks when they leave. The gaudy butterfly is sure that the flowers owe thanks to him. -- Rabindranath Tagore
  • Costly thy habit [dress] as thy purse can buy; But not expressed in fancy - rich, not gaudy. For the apparel oft proclaims the man. -- William Shakespeare
  • That admiration of the 'neat but not gaudy,' which is commonly reported to have influenced the devil when he painted his tail pea green. -- John Ruskin
  • To be closed from everything, and yet to feel, to think...This is the truth of hell, stripped of its gaudy medievalisms. This loss of contact. -- Joanne Harris
  • The ox longs for the gaudy trappings of the horse; the lazy pack-horse would fain plough. [We envy the position of others, dissatisfied with our own.] -- Horace
  • idealism, that gaudy coloring matter of passion, fades when it is brought beneath the trenchant white light of knowledge. Ideals, like mountains, are best at a distance. -- Ellen Glasgow
  • Delusions, errors and lies are like huge, gaudy vessels, the rafters of which are rotten and worm-eaten, and those who embark in them are fated to be shipwrecked. -- Gautama Buddha
  • Baseball outfits went through their gaudy period during the disco '70's, when the White Sox looked like softball players and the Athletics looked like 'Saturday Night Fever' personified. -- George Vecsey
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  • 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 which side thereof an intermediate form should lie. -- Aristotle
  • Gratitude and treachery are merely the two extremities of the same procession. You have seen all of it that is worth staying for when the band and the gaudy officials have gone by. -- Mark Twain
  • I am a prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there is no imagining what new forms they may assume. -- Italo Calvino
  • There was the gaudy patch of sunflowers beside the west gate of the palace of the Prince of Ombria, that did nothing all day long but turn their golden-haired, thousand-eyed faces to follow the sun. -- Patricia A. McKillip
  • In striving for the best, in losing onself in others, one is lifted above the common material furniture of life, above the gaudy trappings and encumbering paraphenalia... into the realm of peace which passeth understanding. -- Olympia Brown
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