Gilded

Famous quotes containing the word gilded:

“Though gilded and golden, the serpent of vice is a serpent still.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“For wheresoe’er I turn my ravished eyes,
Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise,
Poetic fields encompass me around,
And still I seem to tread on classic ground.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)

“The gilded sheath of pity sometimes covers the dagger of envy.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)