Quotes About Gilded Age

#1. We're seeing a new 'Gilded Age,' where inheritance is a deciding factor in who becomes the wealthiest.

Annalee Newitz

#2. For a man who has compared himself to Theodore Roosevelt and the nation's challenges to those of the Gilded Age, Obama put forward a tepid agenda.

Ron Fournier

#3. A battle followed, fought in true Gilded Age fashion with oblique snubs and poisonous courtesy.

Erik Larson

#4. The Tiffany lamp is an American icon bridging the immigrants, settlement houses, and the slums of the Lower East Side and the wealthy industrialists of upper Manhattan, the Gilded Age and its excesses.

Susan Vreeland

#5. At least in the Gilded Age age they gilded shit.

Josh Bazell

#6. The Reagan-Bush years have exalted private gain over public obligation, special interests over the common good, wealth and fame over work and family. The 1980s ushered in a Gilded Age of greed and selfishness, of irresponsibility and excess, and of neglect.

William J. Clinton

#7. Sept. 11 jolted America out of its second gilded age.

Douglas Wilder

#8. We like recovery stories to move quickly through the dark so we can get to the sweeping redemptive ending. I worry that this lack of honest accounts of overcoming adversity has created a Gilded Age of Failure.

Brene Brown

#9. A market economy cannot thrive absent the well-being of average people, even in a gilded age.

Jaron Lanier

#10. Today, as in the Gilded Age, we live in a world where a morality of personal responsibility rubs shoulders with a culture of greed and of flagrant social irresponsibility. Now as then, business has shed its collective responsibility for employees - just as government has for its citizens.

Charles Derber

#11. Love was like a stock, Lizzie realized. You gambled on its paying off in the long run - but it could just as easily cost you everything.

Joanna Shupe

#12. This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.

Thomas Dekker

#13. Women did what strawberry plants did before they shot out their thin vines: the quality of the green changed. Then the vine threads came, then the buds. By the time the white petals died and the mint-colored berry poked out, the leaf shine was gilded tight and waxy.

Toni Morrison

#14. 'Manhattan Love Story' has a very special place in my heart for many reasons. We were very sad to see it go. It brought me to New York, and there's nothing better than getting to go to work and fall for Analeigh Tipton every day.

Jake McDorman

#15. I never thought I would hear you expound the virtues of caring about people."
I frowned. "I care about people. I just don't like them.

Daniel Friedman

#16. I've always felt comfortable amongst the horrors. I married your uncle Gerard, after all.

Melika Dannese Lux

#17. Setting that little girl loose in her society would be like putting a fox in with the chickens. (Violet Strange's detective boss.)

Candida Martinelli

#18. My dad and my uncles owned a bar outside of Cincinnati. I worked there growing up, mopping floors, waiting tables.

John Boehner

#19. I attribute being a good center fielder to many things, but being outside with friends as a kid, running around and racing, that was a big part of it.

Torii Hunter

#20. There's lots of interesting things in books. And you get to meet people you might never know otherwise.

Kiki Hamilton

#21. Going to any loud place is terrible for me. I'm bad at loud restaurants.

Bill Hader

#22. A nation that honors God will always be honored by God. I've seen nations that have dishonored God: God has been taken out of schools, the government, the military; and when you take Him out of a nation, how can you expect God to protect this nation?

Nick Vujicic

#23. It's useless to hold a grudge against anyone for a time will come when all will be forgotten

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#24. An epoch which had gilded individual liberty so that if a man had money he was free in law and fact, and if he had not money he was free in law and not in fact. An era which had canonized hypocrisy, so that to seem to be respectable was to be.

John Galsworthy

#25. She can go places we cannot, associate with people we cannot, understand things about society types and women that we never can. (Why Mr. Burke hires Violet Strange.)

Candida Martinelli

#26. I'm a man of words, yet you rob me of them every single time.

Joanna Shupe

#27. And English society was was not exactly welcoming to these rich newcomers: Imagine Kim Kardashian marrying Prince Henry today and you get the general idea of the suspicion and disdain that the Americans encountered.

Daisy Goodwin

#28. I think I'm doing a service to black women by portraying myself as a sex machine. I mean, what's wrong with being a sex machine, darling? Sex is large, sex is life, sex is as large as life, so it appeals to anyone that's living, or rather it should.

Grace Jones

#29. It was the age of confidence. Arrogance was epidemic.

David Laskin