Gilded Quotes

Stardom can be a gilded slavery.
Helen Hayes

Slavery, Stardom

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

Sad, Lonely, Fashion

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

Age, Forward, Put

Sometimes I'm dazzled by how modern and fabulous we are, and how easy everything can be for us; that's the gilded glow of technology, and I marvel at it all the time.
Susan Orlean

Time, Technology, Sometimes

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

Brain, Show, Vain

A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.
Logan P. Smith

Talent, Mediocre, Tomb

Sept. 11 jolted America out of its second gilded age.
Douglas Wilder

Age, America, Second

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

Age, Wisdom, School

We are with you in this work. Workingmen must form a party of their own, take charge of the government, dispose gilded fraud, and put honest toil in power.
Denis Kearney

Work, Power, Government

There's something unique about the United States, a sense of individual rights and freedoms, and a sense of social and civic responsibility that we contributed to so much of the world. We lost that mission in the 1980s and 1990s, when we entered a gilded age, and the culture of individualism became a culture of avarice.
George Hickenlooper

Age, Lost, Sense

The Obamas, especially Michelle, have radiated the sense that Americans do not appreciate what they sacrifice by living in a gilded cage. They've forgotten Rule No. 1 of politics: No one sheds tears for anyone lucky enough to live at the White House.
Maureen Dowd

Politics, Live, Sacrifice

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