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Letter "G" » gild
«A best seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent»
«In outward show so splendid and so vain; 'tis but a gilded block without a brain»
«A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a 'No,' sweetens truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.»
Author: Baltasar Gracian
(Philosopher, Writer)
| Keywords:
adds, gild, gilding, gilds, spoils, supplies, sweetens
«A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.»
«But Shakespeare also says, 'tis very silly / `To gild refin?d gold, or paint the lily'.»
«Therefore, to be possessed with double pomp,To guard a title that was rich before,To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,To throw a perfume on the violet,To smooth the ice, or add another hueUnto the rainbow, or with taper lightTo seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish,Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.»
«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»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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Nature
| Keywords:
Above the Law, buys, corrupted, currents, gild, gilded, offence, shuffled, shuffles, shuffling, the Action
«Die for adultery! No: The wren goes to't, and the small gilded fly does lecher in my sight»
«Not marble, nor the gilded monumentsOf princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme.»
«For my part, if a lie may do thee grace, I'll gild it with the happiest terms I have»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
gild, gilding, gilds, happiest
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