Tinsel Quotes

• We expect too much at Christmas. It's got to be magical. It's got to go right. Feasting. Fun. The perfect present. All that anticipation. Take it easy. Love's the thing. The rest is tinsel.

  Pam Brown

  Christmas, Fun, Perfect

  Pam Brown (1992). “Merry Christmas”, Exley Giftbooks

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• The ribbons! The wrappings! The tags! And the tinsel! The trimmings! The trappings!

  Dr. Seuss

  Christmas, Ribbons, Tag

  Dr. Seuss (1995). “Six by Seuss”, Prop Pub Juv

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• Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.

  Oscar Levant

  Inspirational, Art, Real

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• Tinsel in February, tinsel in August.
  There are things in a man besides his reason.

  Wallace Stevens

  Men, August, February

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.351, Vintage

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• Christmas is not in tinsel and lights and outward show. The secret lies in an inner glow. It's lighting a fire inside the heart. Good will and joy a vital part. It's higher thought and a greater plan. It's glorious dream in the soul of man.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Christmas, Dream, Lying

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• And the sun had on a crown
  Wrought of gilded thistledown,
  And a scarf of velvet vapor
  And a raveled rainbow gown;
  And his tinsel-tangled hair
  Tossed and lost upon the air
  Was glossier and flossier
  Than any anywhere.

  James Whitcomb Riley

  Hair, Rainbow, Tangled

  James Whitcomb Riley (2010). “Riley Child-Rhymes with Hoosier Pictures”, p.106, Indiana University Press

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• All great humorists are sad... I cannot help seeing beyond the tinsel of humour, and recognising the pitiful basis of jest - the world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  World, Helping, Comic

  "Collected Essays, Volume 5: Philosophy" edited by S. T. Joshi, (p. 54), 2006.

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• In every Christian's Heart, there is a cross and a throne, and the Christian is on the throne till he puts himself on the cross; if he refuses the cross, he remains on the throne. Perhaps this is at the bottom of the backsliding and worldliness among Gospel believers today. We want to be saved, but we insist that Christ do all the dying. No cross for us, no dethronement, no dying. We remain king within the little kingdom of man's soul and wear our tinsel crown with all the pride of a caesar; but we doom ourselves to shadows and weakness and spiritual sterility.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Spiritual, Kings

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• I fight against the gluttony of time with so many very amusing weapons with gestures and with three attitudes and with charming phrases; with tears and with tinsel, and with sugar-coated pills, and with platitudes slightly regilded. Yes, and I fight him also with little mirrors wherein gleam confusedly the corruptions of lust, and ruddy loyalty, and a bit of moonshine, and the pure diamond of the heart's desire, and the opal cloudings of human compromise: but, above all, I fight that ravening dotard with the strength of my own folly.

  James Branch Cabell

  Loyalty, Attitude, Heart

  James Branch Cabell (1948). “The Witch-woman: A Trilogy about Her”, Amereon Limited

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• Thought is a garment and the soul's a bride
  That cannot in that trash and tinsel hide:
  Hatred of God may bring the soul to God.

  William Butler Yeats

  God, Hatred, Soul

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.246, Wordsworth Editions

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• There is a frantic race to merchandise tinsel and trash under the guise of 'modernism.'

  Raymond Loewy

  Race, Trash, Modernism

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• Popularity - a piece of faded tinsel, that is out of date.

  Victor Hugo

  Pieces, Popularity, Faded

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• At Christmas time we couldn't afford tinsel, so we'd wait till grandpa sneezed.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Grandpa, Waiting, Christmas Time

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• I've sold shoes, hawked newspapers, jerked sodas, gazed rapturously at the tinsel dream at the end of a runway from my usher's aisle in a burley-cue, drove a truck - then because I didn't like being pushed around, started pushing a pencil around.

  Burne Hogarth

  Dream, Shoes, Pushing

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• Oh, heart, let's never grow too old To smile anew, when Christmas comes, At tassels red and tinsel thread, And tarlatan bags f sugarplums.

  Nancy Byrd Turner

  Christmas, Heart, Bags

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• A life of mere pleasure! A little while, in the spring-time of the senses, in the sunshine of prosperity, in the jubilee of health, it may seem well enough. But how insufficient, how mean, how terrible when age comes, and sorrow, and death! A life of pleasure! What does it look like when these great changes beat against it--when the realities of eternity stream in? It looks like the fragments of a feast, when the sun shines upon the withered garlands, and the tinsel, and the overturned tables, and the dead lees of wine.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Spring, Wine, Mean

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• Titles are tinsel, power a corrupter, glorya bubble, and excessive wealth a libel on its possessor.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Titles, Wealth, Libel

  1812 Declaration of Rights, article 27.

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• God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of "parties" with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we all wear. And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter - they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long. Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship - but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering.

  Sylvia Plath

  Loneliness, Party, Grief

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.19, Anchor

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• For instance," said the boy again, "if Christmas trees were people and people were Christmas trees, we'd all be chopped down, put up in the living room, and covered in tinsel, while the trees opened our presents." "What does that have to do with it?" asked Milo. "Nothing at all," he answered, "but it's an interesting possibility, don't you think?

  Norton Juster

  Thinking, Boys, People

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• Tinsel is really snakes' mirrors.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Mirrors

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• How is Christmas regarded today? The legend of Santa Claus, the Christmas tree, the decorations of tinsel and mistletoe, and the giving of gifts all express to us the spirit of the day we celebrate; but the true spirit of Christmas lies much deeper than these. It is found in the life of the Savior, in the principles He taught, in His atoning sacrifice-which become our great heritage.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Lying, Sacrifice, Giving

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• This barren verbiage, current among men,
  Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Men, Coins, Currents

  "Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson".

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• Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and reindeers, but there must be no mention of the man whose birthday is being celebrated. One wonders how a teacher would answer if a student asked why it was called Christmas.

  Ronald Reagan

  Christmas, Teacher, School

  Ronald Reagan, Kiron K. Skinner, Annelise Graebner Anderson, Martin Anderson (2001). “Reagan, in His Own Hand: The Writings of Ronald Reagan that Reveal His Revolutionary Vision for America”, p.511, Simon and Schuster

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• Obstinate are the trammels, but my heart aches when I try to break them. Freedom is all I want, but to hope for it I feel ashamed. I am certain that priceless wealth is in thee, and that thou art my best friend, but I have not the heart to sweep away the tinsel that fills my room. The shroud that covers me is a shroud of dust and death; I hate it, yet hug it in love. My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet when I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Art, Prayer, Fear

  Rabindranath Tagore (2013). “Gitanjali - Song Offerings”, p.28, Read Books Ltd

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• I've developed a way to separate myself from me being me, to me being the character. I can separate watching me, Tinsel Korey, from watching Emily

  Tinsel Korey

  Character, Way, Being Me

  Source: collider.com

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