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Why did you buy them? Stop buyin my shit Austin! First the hay, now my horses. Why? — Kindle Alexander

You'll have something to ride on that doesn't make your cock look as small as that gaudy turd. — James S.A. Corey

There is only one kind of wisdom that has any social value, and that is the knowledge of one's own limitations. — Dorothy L. Sayers

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

What is a butterfly? At best
He's but a caterpiller drest.
The gaudy Fop's his picture just. — Benjamin Franklin

Come,
Let's have one other gaudy night. Call to me
All my sad captains. Fill our bowls once more.
Let's mock the midnight bell. — William Shakespeare

Chrysanthemums from gilded argosy
Unload their gaudy senseless merchandise. — Oscar Wilde

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

Having never discovered qualities in myself that might attract someone else, I could never believe that anyone felt attracted to me. — Fernando Pessoa

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

A good editor is like tinsel to a Christmas Tree ... they add the perfect amount of sparkle without being gaudy. — Bobbi Romans

He was the antithesis of the gaudy mafiosi — Dick Lehr

I love crazy, gaudy bling. — Phillip Lim

Undertake this journey for the remission of your sins, with the assurance of the imperishable glory of the Kingdom of Heaven! — Pope Urban II

The first thing a principle does is to kill somebody.
Gaudy Night — Dorothy L. Sayers

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

I'm interested in people who can take the movement somewhere. — Graeme Murphy

A gaudy dress and gentle air May slightly touch the heart; But it's innocence and modesty That polishes the dart. — Robert Burns

Unformed people delight in the gaudy and in novelty. Cooked people delight in the ordinary. — Erik Naggum

Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the rose, with sweets in every fold. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

This film Phantom takes everything that's wrong with Broadway and puts it on the big screen in a gaudy splat. — Stephanie Zacharek

He smelled of warm, sleepy male. She had forgotten what a weirdly potent scent that was. — Jojo Moyes

Take care what words you speak that follow "I am." In so speaking you create your life. — Alan Cohen

Greatness, thou gaudy torment of out souls,
The wise man's fetter, and the rage of fools. — Thomas Otway

Photographs of girl-children; some gaudy moth or butterfly, still alive, safely pinned to the wall. — Vladimir Nabokov

I just wanted to be alone for a while some place other than my house. Until morning. — Haruki Murakami

But what I do love about this road is how the gaudy becomes grand, how tastelessness is a way of everyday life — Michael Zadoorian

The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day Is crept into the bosom of the sea. — William Shakespeare

Why are some people talkative while others measure their words? Why — Susan Cain

She went to bed thinking more about another person than about herself. This goes to prove that even minor poetry may have its practical uses. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Atop their gleaming backs the jockeys look like gaudy baubles, secured with strings. They bob up and down, they rise, lean forward, then settle again. — Beryl Markham