Gaudy Quotes

• It's gaudy, ugly, and in terribly bad taste. It does, however, suit my personality almost perfectly.

  David Eddings

  Personality, Doe, Ugly

  David Eddings (2010). “King Of The Murgos: (Malloreon 2)”, p.243, Random House

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• Come,
  Let's have one other gaudy night. Call to me
  All my sad captains. Fill our bowls once more.
  Let's mock the midnight bell.

  William Shakespeare

  Retirement, Farewell, Night

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 3, sc. 11, l. 182

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• A lot of people have said I'd have probably done better in my career if I hadn't looked so cheap and gaudy. But I dress to be comfortable for me, and you shouldn't be blamed because you want to look pretty.

  Dolly Parton

  Careers, People, Dresses

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• I am a prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there is no imagining what new forms they may assume.

  Italo Calvino

  May, Assuming, Form

  Italo Calvino (2010). “Invisible Cities”, p.123, Random House

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• A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Political, Original Thought, Originality

  "Gaudy Night". Book by Dorothy L. Sayers, 1936.

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• She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Eye, Dark

  "SheWalks in Beauty" l. 1 (1815)

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• The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Tattoo, Sexy, Passion

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Gaudy Night”, p.587, Open Road Media

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• But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Friendship, Sweet, Real Friends

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Poems 2”, p.147, Reprint Services Corporation

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• The apparel oft proclaims the man.

  William Shakespeare

  Fashion, Men, Clothes

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity.

  H. L. Mencken

  Respect, Men, Merit

  H. L. Mencken (2015). “In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality”, p.6, 谷月社

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• Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the rose, with sweets in every fold.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Friendship, Sweet, Rose

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• My visual landscape as a child was the inside of a lot of these old churches. And the Baroque drama of the things was what I was first engaging with artwise. I'm much more attracted to the aesthetic of religious iconography than the actual religious side. The passion and the blood and the violence and the gaudy side of it I find really fascinating.

  Florence Welch

  Religious, Children, Drama

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• It is difficult to believe that even idiots ever succumbed to such transparent contradictions, to such gaudy processions of mere counter-words, to so vast and obvious a nonsensicalitysentence after sentence that has no apparent meaning at all--stuff quite as bad as the worst bosh of Warren Gamaliel Harding.

  H. L. Mencken

  Believe, Style, Stuff

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• Greatness, thou gaudy torment of out souls,
  The wise man's fetter, and the rage of fools.

  Thomas Otway

  Wise, Greatness, Men

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• idealism, that gaudy coloring matter of passion, fades when it is brought beneath the trenchant white light of knowledge. Ideals, like mountains, are best at a distance.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Distance, Passion, Light

  Ellen Glasgow (1900). “The Descendant”

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• That admiration of the 'neat but not gaudy,' which is commonly reported to have influenced the devil when he painted his tail pea green.

  John Ruskin

  Devil, Tails, Green

  John Ruskin (2010). “The Poetry of Architecture - Cottage, Villa, Etc - To Which Is Added Suggestions on Works of Art”, p.161, Orchard Press

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• Strike deep, divide us from cheap-got doubt,
  Leap, leap between us and the easy out;
  Teach us to seize, to use, to sleep well, to let go;
  Let our loves, freed in us, gaudy and graceful, grow.

  Marie Ponsot

  Letting Go, Sleep, Doubt

  Marie Ponsot (2013). “Springing: New and Selected Poems”, p.64, Knopf

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• Delusions, errors and lies are like huge, gaudy vessels, the rafters of which are rotten and worm-eaten, and those who embark in them are fated to be shipwrecked.

  Gautama Buddha

  Lying, Errors, Deceit

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• Poetry saves what is human in this world going gaudy & insane. In exploring small truths, something larger might turn up, adding dimension, insight, vision, recognition to our lives. We just might be more complete, more aware after a poem.

  Diane Glancy

  Poetry, Vision, Insane

  Diane Glancy (1996). “Claiming Breath”, p.83, U of Nebraska Press

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• A pair of jaybirds came up from nowhere, whirled up on the blast like gaudy scraps of cloth or paper and lodged in the mulberries, where they swung in raucous tilt and recover, screaming into the wind that ripped their harsh cries onward and away like scraps of paper or of cloth in turn.

  William Faulkner

  Wind, Bird, Pairs

  William Faulkner (2011). “FAULKNER READER”, p.254, Modern Library

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• Unformed people delight in the gaudy and in novelty. Cooked people delight in the ordinary.

  Erik Naggum

  People, Delight, Novelty

  "Ousterhout and Tcl lost the plot with latest paper". Usenet discussion groups, groups.google.com. September 4, 1997.

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• And rural nature is full of the same quickening spirit-it is, in fact, the exhaustless mine from which the poet and the painter have brought such wondrous treasures-an unfailing fountain of intellectual enjoyment, where all may drink, and be awakened to a deeper feeling of the works of genius, and a keener perception of the beauty of our existence. For those whose days are all consumed in the low pursuits of avarice, or the gaudy frivolities of fashion, unobservant of nature's loveliness, are unconscious of the harmony of creation

  Thomas Cole

  Fashion, Nature, Feelings

  Thomas Cole (1980). “The collected essays and prose sketches”

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• In these gaudy times, we think we will shortly reach the point where everything is known, but the fact is we are ignoring the essential, which is love of all living things, of all beauty both visible and hidden.

  Georges Rouault

  Thinking, Essentials, Facts

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• I love crazy, gaudy bling.

  Phillip Lim

  Crazy, Crazy Love, Bling

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• The last copy of the Chicago Daily News I picked up had three crime stories on its front page. But by comparison to the gaudy days, this is small-time stuff. Chicago is as full of crooks as a saw with teeth, but the era when they ruled the city is gone forever.

  John Gunther

  Cities, Forever, Chicago

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