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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
The Tiffany lamp is an American icon bridging the immigrants, settlement houses, and the slums of the Lower East Side and the wealthy industrialists of upper Manhattan, the Gilded Age and its excesses. -- Susan Vreeland
Nods from the Gilded pointers - Nods from the Seconds slim - Decades of Arrogance between The Dial life - And Him - -- Emily Dickinson
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
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
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
I love bright words, words up and singing early;Words that are luminous in the dark, and sing;Warm lazy words, white cattle under trees;I love words opalescent, cool, and pearly,Like midsummer moths, and honied words like bees, Gilded and sticky, with a little sting." -- Elinor Wylie
Today, as in the Gilded Age, we live in a world where a morality of personal responsibility rubs shoulders with a culture of greed and of flagrant social irresponsibility. Now as then, business has shed its collective responsibility for employees - just as government has for its citizens. -- Charles Derber
All that glisters is not gold-Often have you heard that told.Many a man his life hath soldBut my outside to behold.Gilded tombs do worms infold.Had you been as wise as bold,Young in limbs, in judgment old,Your answer had not been enscrolled.Fare you well, your suit is cold." -- William Shakespeare
Stardom can be a gilded slavery. -- Helen Hayes
Sept. 11 jolted America out of its second gilded age. -- Douglas Wilder
A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
In outward show so splendid and so vain; 'tis but a gilded block without a brain. -- Phaedrus
This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school. -- Thomas Dekker
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
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
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
I'm a big fan of the Pre-Raphaelites. Millais, Edward Burne-Jones, and I realised recently that my music is Pre-Raphaelite in a certain way, in that it reinvents an older era and romanticises it, puts it in this gilded frame. -- Rufus Wainwright
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
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
I was taken to my first fashion show - Nina Ricci haute couture - in Paris by the White Russian princess, down on her luck, whom I was boarding with in Paris in 1963. I was captivated by the glamour of the gilded salon, the elegant clothes, and the audience of grand ladies. -- Suzy Menkes
There's something unique about the United States, a sense of individual rights and freedoms, and a sense of social and civic responsibility that we contributed to so much of the world. We lost that mission in the 1980s and 1990s, when we entered a gilded age, and the culture of individualism became a culture of avarice. -- George Hickenlooper
A gilded sound" -- Alessandro Baricco
Stardom can be a gilded slavery." -- Helen Hayes
We will all laugh at gilded butterflies." -- William Shakespeare
Sept. 11 jolted America out of its second gilded age." -- Douglas Wilder
I make sacrifices in reward of trinkets for my gilded cage." -- Solange nicole
Newspapers appeared like oracles on your doorstep- gilded fragments of anonymous love." -- Susan Rich
True beauty lies not upon gilded veneers,But found in the soul within." -- E.A. Bucchianeri
...and here's a secret for you - everything beautiful is sad...gilded with impermanence..." -- John Geddes
On Sleep's soft lap the head without a crown Forgot the gilded trouble it had worn" -- Edward Bulwer Lytton
This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school." -- Thomas Dekker
Heat in her birds of prey fingertips, smoke of gilded flowers in her aureate gorging hair." -- Laura Gentile
A market economy cannot thrive absent the well-being of average people, even in a gilded age." -- Jaron Lanier
The old seraph, parcel-gilded, among violets Inhaled the appointed odor, while the doves Rose up like phantoms from chronologies." -- Wallace Stevens
Vronsky is one of the sons of Count Kirill Ivanovitch Vronsky, and one of the finest specimens of the gilded youth of Petersburg." -- Leo Tolstoy
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
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
The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of graceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying." -- Mark Twain
It was as if the sensory overload that is American life had somehow led to sensory deprivation, a gilded weariness, where everything is permitted and nothing appreciated." -- J. Maarten Troost
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
Here in the city she had gilded her nails. They shone. And she had put on a velvet dress, this soft red one, which was heavy. The buttons were in the form of seashells." -- Saul Bellow
The handsome dining room of the Hotel Wessex, with its gilded plaster shields and the mural depicting the Green Mountains, had been reserved for the Ladies' Night Dinner of the Fort Beulah Rotary Club." -- Sinclair Lewis
This twilight, Lothaire was holding court.He sat upon his gilded throne, decoratedwith gold-dipped skulls. His design. If he'd had a queen, her throne would have been similar. Of course, her skulls would be daintier." -- Kresley Cole
It was mad. It was inconceivable. Anthony began to detect in himself the symptoms of a disease he had sworn never to acquire--lovesickness--and thus berated himself for a clodpoll to so fall into the gilded trap." -- Dominique Frost
He realised that comfortable surroundings, indeed the gilded surroundings of his own life until then, and all the things that went with that, don't tend to produce happiness or fulfilment without some sense of love to go with them." -- Paul Torday
As the hours crept by, the afternoon sunlight bleached all the books on the shelves to pale, gilded versions of themselves and warmed the paper and ink inside the covers so that the smell of unread words hung in the air." -- Maggie Stiefvater
Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels bound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum, even when they are as gilded as you are capable of being." -- Alexandre Dumas
The cat, covered in dust and standing on its hind legs, bowed to Margarita. Round its neck it was now wearing a made-up white bow tie on an elastic band, with a pair of ladies' mother-of-pearl binoculars hanging on a cord. It had also gilded its whiskers." -- Mikhail Bulgakov
Pushing himself off the bed in a violent thrust, his lats widen like wings down his sides, where his waistcoat is open halfway to his waist to accommodate muscular builds, he indicates the gilded cage with outstretched arms. Showing off his supreme musculature, he says, "We have forever Phoebe." -- Poppet
An epoch which had gilded individual liberty so that if a man had money he was free in law and fact, and if he had not money he was free in law and not in fact. An era which had canonized hypocrisy, so that to seem to be respectable was to be." -- John Galsworthy
He'd forgotten just how beautiful she was.She was wearing a plain gown the color of weak, milky tea, largely covered by a black apron. There was a smudge of dirt across her cheek, and her gilded curls were an untamed riot with a cobweb draped across one side.She was exquisite." -- Jo Beverley
The gilded wreaths and crowns that the Legion had won in the days of its honour were gone from the crimson-bound staff; the furious talons still clutched the crossed thunderbolts, but where the great silver wings should have arched back in savage pride, were only empty socket-holes in the flanks of gilded bronze." -- Rosemary Sutcliff
...and there is such honesty and innocence to her voice I want to hold her. The bedside lamplight is a rich golden color, and it is falling on her face in a way that makes it seem gilded. For a moment, L.D. looks to me like an angel. Another case of illusion only being the larger truth." -- Elizabeth Berg
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
Prom was more about acting out some weird facsimile of adulthood: dress up like a tacky wedding party, hold hands and behave like a couple even if you've never dated, and observe the etiquette of Gilded Age debutantes thrust into modern celebrity: limos, red carpets and a constant stream of paparazzi, played by parents, teachers, and hired photo hacks." -- Dave Cullen
We guard our bodies until they are old and tasteless, when we could have fed ourselves to claw and fur, been literally reincarnated in the cells of a lion sleeping in the sun, the wall of muscle that is a bear crashing through a rotten log in search of ant eggs. Why not return again and again, glistening, gilded every time?" -- Craig Childs
The path is a ribbon of moonlight across a dusky sea.The wind sings a song that beckons us To that great and mighty tree.We are the Greenowls of Ambala, clad in raiments of moss,Sprigged with lichens and grassesThen gilded with silvery frost.Fair and square we play- for a sporting lot we are.We ride the boisterous Balefire gustsAnd we reach for every star." -- Kathryn Lasky
Sovegna vos.Here are the years that walk between, bearingAway the fiddles and the flutes, restoringOne who moves in the time between sleep and waking, wearingWhite light folded, sheathed about her, folded.The new years walk, restoringThrough a bright cloud of tears, the years, restoringWith a new verse the ancient rhyme. RedeemThe time. RedeemThe unread vision in the higher dreamWhile jewelled unicorns draw by the gilded hearse." -- T. S. Eliot
We will all laugh at gilded butterflies. -- William Shakespeare
Chrysanthemums from gilded argosy Unload their gaudy senseless merchandise. -- Oscar Wilde
What worked yesterday is the gilded cage of tomorrow. -- Peter Block
A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent -- Logan Pearsall Smith
Boasting, like gilded armour, is very different inside from outside. -- Diogenes
A gilded No is more satisfactory than a dry Yes. -- Baltasar Gracian
I make sacrifices in reward of trinkets for my gilded cage. -- Solange nicole
The gilded sheath of pity sometimes covers the dagger of envy. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded. -- Mark Twain
True beauty lies not upon gilded veneers,But found in the soul within. -- E.A. Bucchianeri
The gilded spiralOf longings within.Our very own cathedralThat points persistently to heaven. -- Scott Hastie
...and here's a secret for you - everything beautiful is sad...gilded with impermanence... -- John Geddes
Ah! fraudful malice! how shall wisdom's care Escape the poison of thy gilded snare! -- William Julius Mickle
Liberty? Why it doesn't exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages. -- Aldous Huxley
Oft has good nature been the fool's defence, And honest meaning gilded want of sense. -- William Shenstone
A market economy cannot thrive absent the well-being of average people, even in a gilded age. -- Jaron Lanier
So we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh at gilded butterflies. -- William Shakespeare
Heat in her birds of prey fingertips, smoke of gilded flowers in her aureate gorging hair. -- Laura Gentile
Her beauty was sold for an old man's gold. She's a bird in a gilded cage. -- Arthur J. Lamb
Die for adultery! No: The wren goes to't, and the small gilded fly does lecher in my sight -- William Shakespeare
I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver. Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her. -- Oscar Wilde
That which seems to be wealth may in verity be only the gilded index of far reaching ruin -- John Ruskin
Let us prefer the lonely cottage, while blest with liberty, to gilded palaces, surrounded with the ensigns of slavery. -- Joseph Warren
All the world's indeed a stage And we are merely players Performers and portrayers Each another's audience outside the gilded cage -- Neil Peart
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
Cages come in lots of different colors and shapes. Some are gilded, while others have a slamming door. But golden handcuffs are still handcuffs. -- Amy Harmon
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
It was as if the sensory overload that is American life had somehow led to sensory deprivation, a gilded weariness, where everything is permitted and nothing appreciated. -- J. Maarten Troost
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
For wheresoe'er I turn my ravish'd eyes, Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, Poetic fields encompass me around, And still I seem to tread on classic ground. -- Joseph Addison
A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment. -- Walter Scott
Yea, Paris is a festive ton -- a festive Ton for all! Skate o'er on joy -- Thin crust of gilded, polished joy! What matters it if Hell's beneath? -- D. H. Lawrence
Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings? -- Alexander Pope
The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Be not with honor's gilded baits beguil'd, Nor think ambition wise, because 'tis brave; For though we like it, as a forward child, 'Tis so unsound, her cradle is the grave. -- William Davenant
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 on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm. -- Thomas Gray
Poor-country surf communities can be complex and, to some extent, leveling. The fisherman's kid is competing head to head with the plutocrat's gilded son. Your father can't buy you a good frontside hack. -- William Finnegan
The clothes that fire up my emotions are colorful and different pieces. My eye still picks out gilded-cloque glamour from among Burberrys streamlined trench coats or a hand-printed coat from Dries Van Noten. -- Suzy Menkes
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 coats or a hand-printed coat from Dries Van Noten. -- Suzy Menkes

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