Famous quotes containing the words gilded and/or shrine:
“Though gilded and golden, the serpent of vice is a serpent still.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“The United Nations cannot do anything, and never could; it is not an animate entity or agent. It is a place, a stage, a forum and a shrine ... a place to which powerful people can repair when they are fearful about the course on which their own rhetoric seems to be propelling them.”
—Conor Cruise O’Brien (b. 1917)