Gild The Lily Quotes & Sayings

It seemed sensible to move to a market town where I could walk everywhere. — Mary Wesley

To gild refined gold, to paint the lily ... is wasteful and ridiculous excess — William Shakespeare

and grim and faithful handmaiden of the Blythe family at Ingleside, never lost an opportunity of calling her "Mrs. Marshall Elliott," with — L.M. Montgomery

My aunts were not cruel, you understand. They loved to talk, and at every available opportunity they gave away the neatly wrapped presents of their thoughts, confident that no one would refuse them. — Ann Howard Creel

My favorite way to cook trout is whole, bone-in, on the grill. The fish are stuffed with sliced lemons and herb sprigs, brushed with oil, and cooked over fairly hot coals until the skin is crisp and the flesh is moist and flaky. Go ahead and gild the lily by adding a sauce. — Tom Douglas

If you do a smoky eye, chances are you will not want to do a strong lip as well. It's never good to gild the lily. — Brad Goreski

If you can figure out where you fit into any particular story, you'll be okay. When you're not quite sure where you fit in, you try to be too many parts of the story. You gild the lily. I see it all the time. — John C. McGinley

Any fact facing us, however difficult, even seemingly hopeless, is not so important as our attitude towards that fact. How you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You may permit a fact to overwhelm you mentally before you deal with it actually. On the other hand, a confident and optimistic thought pattern can overcome or modify the fact altogether. — Norman Vincent Peale

I thought of nothing else but rock 'n' roll; apart from sex and food and money
but that's all the same thing, really. — John Lennon

The true test of love is not always 'Will you fight for it?' The real test of true love is often 'Are you willing to give it up? — Tiffany Reisz

Steven Gerrard would be the captain of my World XI dream team. — Francesco Totti

Yeah, I know you think I'm a fucking moron, but I can figure it out if you only use small words, — Hanya Yanagihara

Good advice, if there's any good in suffering. Quickest is best when trouble blocks the way. — Sophocles

And when demigods use cell phones, the signals agitate every monster within a hundred miles. It's like sending up a flare: Here I am! Please rearrange my face! — Rick Riordan

When people say 'What are underground comics?' I think the best way you can define them is just the absolute freedom involved ... we didn't have anyone standing over us. — Robert Crumb

Therefore, to be possess'd 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 hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. — William Shakespeare

And how they set me up in court! They really set me up!" "Even if they hadn't set you up, you'd have been convicted anyway," Alyosha said, sighing. "Yes, the local public is sick of me! — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

People's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. — Haruki Murakami