Quotes about Gilded

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Learning to be a lady / is like learning / to live within a shell, / to be a crustacean encased / in a small white / unc — Stephanie Hemphill, Sisters of Glass
America's industrial success produced a roll call of financial magnificence: Rockefellers, Morgans, Astors, Mellons, Fri — Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life
But Pierre had been born with a shrewdness that made him early aware that a failure to believe that human events were or — Louis Auchincloss, East Side Story
I used to go to church. I even went through a rather intense religious period when I was sixteen. But the idea of an eve — Louis Auchincloss, East Side Story
Not the least of the hardships to which the dying are subject is the visitation of their loved ones. The poor darlings, — Louis Auchincloss, East Side Story
The gilded spiralOf longings within.Our very own cathedralThat points persistently to heaven. — Scott Hastie
It was the age of confidence. Arrogance was epidemic. — David Laskin, The Children's Blizzard
If your party serves the powerful and well-funded interests, and there's no limit to what you can spend, you have a perm — David Axelrod
He knew there was only a slight difference between an armed guard and an escort, but sometimes that difference separated — Raymond E. Feist, Exile's Return
The noise around me blurs, and all I can focus on is his lips and breath and presence. — Christina Farley, Gilded
She can go places we cannot, associate with people we cannot, understand things about society types and women that we ne — Candida Martinelli, Violet's Problem
Setting that little girl loose in her society would be like putting a fox in with the chickens. (Violet Strange's detect — Candida Martinelli, Violet's Problem
I’m a man of words, yet you rob me of them every single time. — Joanna Shupe, Mogul
This isn't London, sweetheart. This is New York City and we can spot a fraud from a mile away. — Joanna Shupe, A Daring Arrangement
Love was like a stock, Lizzie realized. You gambled on its paying off in the long run—but it could just as easily cost y — Joanna Shupe, Magnate
A gold cage is still a cage.-King David IOh, go cry in a bag of money.-Queen Christina — MaryJanice Davidson, The Royal Treatment
As long as you don't tell your father that I seduced you, tied you to my bed and made love to you, then treated you like — Lauren Smith
Everyone has a weakness. Even a demigod. — Christina Farley, Gilded
...and here's a secret for you - everything beautiful is sad...gilded with impermanence... — John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
Stardom can be a gilded slavery. — Helen Hayes