Gilded Quotations | Page 2

The Tiffany lamp is an American icon bridging the immigrants, settlement houses, and the slums of the Lower East Side and the wealthy industrialists of upper Manhattan, the Gilded Age and its excesses.

It's a good life in this sort of Madame Bovary way. It's beautiful and perfect and seems to be just what you want but ends up becoming a gilded cage.

They have this fantastic nugget of historical material from the Gilded Age. It's a wonderful, small overview of American painting from about 1870 to 1915.

Stardom can be a gilded slavery.

We will all laugh at gilded butterflies.

O Swallow, Swallow, flying, flying South,/ Fly to her, and fall upon her gilded eaves,/ And tell her, tell her, what I tell to thee.

The purest treasure mortal times afford, is spotless reputation; that away, men are but gilded loam or painted clay.

In the corrupted currents of this word offence's gilded hand may solve by justice, and oft, tis seen the wicked prize itself buys out the law: but 'tis not so above; There is no shuffling, there the action lies in his true nature; And we ourselves

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.

Lots of members have been appalled at the kind of Gilded Age mentality of the party. Others felt like they had to take one for the team.