Gilding The Lily Quotes & Sayings

There are far too many silent sufferers. Not because they don't yearn to reach out, but because they've tried and found no one who cares. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Instead, I remembered that in the Bible, Jesus promised his followers that they would be provided with everything they needed, everything they "needed," but not necessarily everything they wanted. — Jose N. Harris

This wasn't a case of gilding the lily. If there was a lily underneath all that, it had long since been crushed to a pulp. The party stopped in its tracks as she took off her cloak, frozen in wordless contemplation of a wardrobe that made the word "gaudy" sound sweet and demure by contrast. — Courtney Milan

My own belief is that most people are trying to do their best. It doesn't mean they have no nasty side, or that they don't have a bad temper, or that they have never done anything they feel ashamed of. But fiction operates on people waking up trying to be horrible, and I don't think most people are trying to be horrible. — Julian Fellowes

There are consequences if you act militarily, and there's big consequences if you don't act. — Dennis Ross

Fortune provides a man's table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal. — Democritus

I like when I use music in film that it isn't just gilding the lily and it isn't telling you how to feel. It's giving you something, some other information that you cannot otherwise get in the scene. — Fred Schepisi

Posing as someone, or something, else is the story of many women and men who have experienced repression and made a bid for freedom. It is the story of a gay U.S. Marine who had to pretend he was straight. It is the story of a Jewish family in Nazi Germany posing as Protestants. It is the story of a black South African who tried to make his skin lighter under apartheid. — Jenny Nordberg

Denying yourself a life of personal freedom is denying yourself of a life worth living. — Michelle Cruz-Rosado

Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who know me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower when I thought a flower would grow. — Abraham Lincoln

I had two sisters, and we would love to get dressed up and pretend that we were chic, sophisticated ladies. And I think that was a great sort of preparation, in a way. — Suzanne Farrell

The sky would be empty without the birds. — Shannon Messenger

Those [Watergate] tapes are going to take me to my grave with a huge smile on my face.. — Ben Bradlee