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In outward show so splendid and so vain; 'tis but a gilded block without a brain. — Phaedrus

People who want to be loved", I say, "always do the most idiotic things ... — Rosamund Hodge

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

Boasting, like gilded armour, is very different inside from outside. — Diogenes

That which seems to be wealth may in verity be only the gilded index of far reaching ruin — John Ruskin

Love was like a stock, Lizzie realized. You gambled on its paying off in the long run - but it could just as easily cost you everything. — Joanna Shupe

Ah! fraudful malice! how shall wisdom's care Escape the poison of thy gilded snare! — William Julius Mickle

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

Let us prefer the lonely cottage, while blest with liberty, to gilded palaces, surrounded with the ensigns of slavery. — Joseph Warren

Newspapers appeared like oracles on your doorstep- gilded fragments of anonymous love. — Susan Rich

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

I'm a man of words, yet you rob me of them every single time. — Joanna Shupe

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

Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded. — Mark Twain

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

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

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

Her beauty was sold for an old man's gold. She's a bird in a gilded cage. — Arthur J. Lamb

What worked yesterday is the gilded cage of tomorrow. — Peter Block

The gilded spiral
Of 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

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

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

Over this year, familiarity had done its usual work, picking off the gilded paint one scratch at a time. — Frances Hardinge

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