Gimcrack Quotes

#1. And as I looked, it became very clear that this five-and-ten-cent ship was in some way connected with human pretensions. This suffocating interior of a dime-store ship was my own personal self; these gimcrack mobiles of tin and plastic were my personal contributions to the universe.

Aldous Huxley

#2. Even if heaven were real, and measured as Revelation says, so many cubits this wayand that, how gimcrack a place it would be, crammed with its pavements of gold, its gates of pearl and topaz, like a gigantic chunkof costume jewelry.

Margaret Laurence

#3. That gimcrack little desk, probably sham antique Louis XIV. She had said something to him once about there being a secret drawer in it. Secret drawer! That would not fool the police long.

Agatha Christie

#4. Love is but a flitting shadow, a lure, a gimcrack, a kickshaw.

Nathanael West

#5. What we've seen in Louisiana - the breakdown of law and order in the aftermath of disaster - is exactly the kind of situation where the Second Amendment was intended to allow citizens to protect themselves.

Wayne LaPierre

#6. My children are as at home in the Port Elgin library as I used to be, and they've sat in the cinema seats where I sat with their aunt every Saturday afternoon, watching the matinee movies.

Susanna Kearsley

#7. 15. The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going.

Anonymous

#8. We forget what we already have, don

Anthony Robbins

#9. Lets be children forever ! They make everything seem magical !'-Fida Qutob

Fida Fayez Qutob & Dalia Qutob

#10. Nothing is so certain as that which is certain after doubts. Shaking settles and roots.

Richard Sibbes