Gilded Quotes

“...and here's a secret for you - everything beautiful is sad...gilded with impermanence...”

“The gilded spiralOf longings within.Our very own cathedralThat points persistently to heaven.”

“If your party serves the powerful and well-funded interests, and there's no limit to what you can spend, you have a permanent, structural advantage. We're averaging fifty-dollar checks in our campaign, and trying to ward off these seven- or eight-figure checks on the other side. That disparity is pretty striking, and so are the implications. In many ways, we're back in the Gilded Age. We have robber barons buying the government.”

“A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.”

“I make sacrifices in reward of trinkets for my gilded cage.”

“This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.”

“True beauty lies not upon gilded veneers,But found in the soul within.”

“We're seeing a new 'Gilded Age,' where inheritance is a deciding factor in who becomes the wealthiest.”

“It is part of wisdom never to revisit a wilderness, for the more golden the lily, the more certain that someone has gilded it.”