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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
Oft has good nature been the fool's defence, And honest meaning gilded want of sense.
— William Shenstone
That which seems to be wealth may in verity be only the gilded index of far reaching ruin
— John Ruskin
Ah! fraudful malice! how shall wisdom's care Escape the poison of thy gilded snare!
— William Julius Mickle
Let us prefer the lonely cottage, while blest with liberty, to gilded palaces, surrounded with the ensigns of slavery.
— Joseph Warren
Royalty mostly seem like members of some anachronistic faith, like the Amish, peculiar in gilded buggies.
— Stacey D'Erasmo
We fly into our own gilded cages and then bemoan the bars.
— Angela Darling
A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent
— Logan Pearsall Smith
Heat in her birds of prey fingertips, smoke of gilded flowers in her aureate gorging hair.
— Laura Gentile
Nods from the Gilded pointers -Nods from the Seconds slim -
Decades of Arrogance between
The Dial life -
And Him - — Emily Dickinson
It was the age of confidence. Arrogance was epidemic.
— David Laskin
I said: 'Thou thing of patches, rings,Pins, necklaces and suchlike things,
Disguiser of the female form,
Thou paltry, gilded poisonous worm! — William Blake
We will all laugh at gilded butterflies.
— William Shakespeare
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
A battle followed, fought in true Gilded Age fashion with oblique snubs and poisonous courtesy.
— Erik Larson
Jem thought of Jace Herondale. How he was like Will if someone had struck a match to Will and gilded him in living fire.
— Cassandra Clare
And here's a secret for you - everything beautiful is sad ... gilded with impermanence ...
— John Geddes
I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver. Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her.
— Oscar Wilde
Varnishing Gilded Frames, 117
— Lydia Maria Francis Child
Everyone has a weakness. Even a demigod.
— Christina Farley
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
Sorrow is concealed in gilded palaces, and there's no escaping it.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The gilded sheath of pity sometimes covers the dagger of envy.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
I've always felt comfortable amongst the horrors. I married your uncle Gerard, after all.
— Melika Dannese Lux
Mr. Grabby Hands has issued you an order.
— Lauren Smith
The gilded chairs covered with their worn tapestry were set about stiffly like too many servants with nothing to do.
— John Steinbeck
Learning to be a lady / is like learning / to live within a shell, / to be a crustacean encased / in a small white / uncomfortable world.
— Stephanie Hemphill
True beauty lies not upon gilded veneers,But found in the soul within. — E.A. Bucchianeri
I make sacrifices in reward of trinkets for my gilded cage.
— Solange Nicole
The old seraph, parcel-gilded, among violets Inhaled the appointed odor, while the doves Rose up like phantoms from chronologies.
— Wallace Stevens
What worked yesterday is the gilded cage of tomorrow.
— Peter Block
The gilded spiralOf longings within.
Our very own cathedral
That points persistently to heaven. — Scott Hastie
We're seeing a new 'Gilded Age,' where inheritance is a deciding factor in who becomes the wealthiest.
— Annalee Newitz
So we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh at gilded butterflies.
— William Shakespeare
In writing terms, even lilies need to be gilded.
— Kevin Ansbro
Well, aren't you a wet dream.
— Lauren Smith
Sept. 11 jolted America out of its second gilded age.
— Douglas Wilder
A gold cage is still a cage.-King David I
Oh, go cry in a bag of money.
-Queen Christina — MaryJanice Davidson
This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.
— Thomas Dekker
Stardom can be a gilded slavery.
— Helen Hayes
Setting that little girl loose in her society would be like putting a fox in with the chickens. (Violet Strange's detective boss.)
— Candida Martinelli
A gilded No is more satisfactory than a dry Yes.
— Baltasar Gracian
The noise around me blurs, and all I can focus on is his lips and breath and presence.
— Christina Farley
At least in the Gilded Age age they gilded shit.
— Josh Bazell
His bedroom was the gilded, diamond-studded, pearl-encrusted rococo lair of a god-king.
— Lev Grossman
Liberty? Why it doesn't exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.
— Aldous Huxley
A market economy cannot thrive absent the well-being of average people, even in a gilded age.
— Jaron Lanier
Die for adultery! No: The wren goes to't, and the small gilded fly does lecher in my sight
— William Shakespeare
