Gilded Cage Quotes

#1. I make sacrifices in reward of trinkets for my gilded cage.

Solange Nicole

#2. The Obamas, especially Michelle, have radiated the sense that Americans do not appreciate what they sacrifice by living in a gilded cage. They've forgotten Rule No. 1 of politics: No one sheds tears for anyone lucky enough to live at the White House.

Maureen Dowd

#3. I want to know:
Why is a horse noble and the dove beloved
but no one keeps a pet vulture in a gilded cage.
Why is the humble clover trodden upon rather than the red tulip.
I want to see anew and wash the words of the world
in wind and rain.

Sohrab Sepehri

#4. But if you are to die, live first! Come forth With me into the glory of God's earth! Soon, soon the gilded cage will claim its prize. The Lady thrives there, but the Woman dies, And I love nothing but the Woman in you.

Henrik Ibsen

#5. All the world's indeed a stage
And we are merely players
Performers and portrayers
Each another's audience outside the gilded cage

Neil Peart

#6. I wanted to rip her from her gilded cage and force the world onto her just to watch her crumble. Misery loves company, and I was nothing if not lonely.- Kaden

Teresa Mummert

#7. I'm sorry little bird But that was the way you were made. There will always be distance. But we will make sure your gilded cage Is resplendent. You will live seperate, but we will keep you so busy That you don't know You're not free.

Rex Emerson Jackson

#8. Pushing himself off the bed in a violent thrust, his lats widen like wings down his sides, where his waistcoat is open halfway to his waist to accommodate muscular builds, he indicates the gilded cage with outstretched arms. Showing off his supreme musculature, he says, We have forever Phoebe.

Poppet

#9. Her beauty was sold for an old man's gold. She's a bird in a gilded cage.

Arthur J. Lamb

#10. What worked yesterday is the gilded cage of tomorrow.

Peter Block

#11. The boy didn't know where he and his family were, other than one name: Mississippi.

Larry Brown

#12. A gold cage is still a cage.
-King David I
Oh, go cry in a bag of money.
-Queen Christina

MaryJanice Davidson

#13. He knew there was only a slight difference between an armed guard and an escort, but sometimes that difference separated the honored and the condemned.

Raymond E. Feist

#14. How terrible it is to have no cares, no longings. I do not fit. I feel too deeply and want too much. As cages go, it is a gilded one, but I shall not live well in it or any cage for that matter.

Libba Bray

#15. Every time I reach a new audience, that means I'm doing something right.

Pitbull

#16. And everywhere I turned: Riley and Amelia.
I suppose this could have been because I was always following them around.

Jaclyn Moriarty

#17. There's so much competition for leisure time, more than ever.

Eric Fellner

#18. Learning to be a lady / is like learning / to live within a shell, / to be a crustacean encased / in a small white / uncomfortable world.

Stephanie Hemphill

#19. Some thinkers would feel sorely hampered if at liberty to use no forms but such as existed in nature, or to invent nothing save in accordance with the laws of the world of the senses; but
it must not therefore be imagined that they desire escape from the region of law.

George MacDonald