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I am a crazy online shopper. My husband always jokes, 'Another box arrived!' Airplanes used to be my sanctuary for reading books, but now I have to peruse Gilt sales. -- Lisa Ling
I am a crazy online shopper. My husband always jokes, Another box arrived! Airplanes used to be my sanctuary for reading books, but now I have to peruse Gilt sales. -- Lisa Ling
Quicksilver is used for many purposes; without it, neither silver nor brass can be properly gilt. -- Vitruvius
I think directors can become overly infatuated by gilt and gold, and the word 'lavish' and everything being magnificent. -- Tom Hooper
Favouring employment versus the financial markets is a decent policy; certainly not beneficial for the currency or the gilt market, but beneficial for the people. -- Bill Gross
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols; the gilt comes off in our hands. -- Gustave Flaubert
Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, flaming advertisements, will all prove unavailing if you or your employees treat your patrons abruptly. The truth is, the more kind and liberal a man is, the more generous will be the patronage bestowed upon him. -- P. T. Barnum
I do shop online! But I'm shopping online mostly in the home categories - One Kings Lane and Gilt. At a lot of architectural websites, I buy a lot of hardware for cabinetry like hinges and things like that from England. So, you know, for me, I shop at Net-A-Porter, but I don't really shop that much for clothing online. -- Nate Berkus
Civilization is only savagery silver-gilt. -- H. Rider Haggard
Every human act can be disguised with a coating of gilt. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Habit maketh no monk, ne wearing of gilt spurs maketh no knight. -- Geoffrey Chaucer
Open the book. (The gilt rubs off the edges of the pages and pollinates the fingertips.) -- Elizabeth Bishop
Bei den Hochgestellten gilt das Reden vom Essen als niedrig. Das kommt: sie haben schon gegessen. -- Bertolt Brecht
In Nature all is common, and no use is base. She keeps no selected elements done up in gilt papers for sensitive people. -- Joel Dorman Steele
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Casting aspersions on those we love always does something to loosen our ties. We shouldn't maltreat our idols: the gilt comes off on our hands. -- Gustave Flaubert
The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin; whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but the common copper. -- Thomas Carlyle
Though the fact that they have to be rebuilt And frequently mortgaged to the hilt Is inclined to take the gilt Off the gingerbread, And certainly damps the fun Of the eldest son. -- Noel Coward
War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose superficial literary and oratorical talent covers an abyss of Godforsaken folly. -- George Bernard Shaw
As pills that are outwardly fair, gilt, and rolled in sugar, but within are full of bitterness, even so lustful pleasure is no sooner hatched but remorse is at hand, ready to supplant her. -- Daniel Cawdry
Only those books come down which deserve to last . All the gilt edges, vellum and morocco, all the presentation copies to all the libraries will not preserve a book in circulation beyond its intrinsic date. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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