Quotes About The Gilded Age

#1. 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

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

Josh Bazell

#3. 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

#4. 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

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

Erik Larson

#6. 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

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

Thomas Dekker

#8. 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

#9. There's something scary about the unknown. And maybe the scariest movies couldn't ever be made because they are too deep in somebody's head, too unknown to get out.

Avey Tare

#10. The market economy-capitalism-is a social system of consumers' supremacy.

Ludwig Von Mises

#11. The mobile market is exploding and it makes perfect sense for a media company like ours to create a real content destination for the billions of cell-phone users around the world.

Peter Chernin

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

Melika Dannese Lux

#13. 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

#14. So it's not all that important who people really are. Honestly, you could end up spending your life with almost anyone, and it wouldn't matter who - because the person they are to you is totally dependent on your view of them.

Steph Bowe

#15. The beth din is the court of the chief rabbi. I see myself taking an active role within the beth din.

Ephraim Mirvis

#16. 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

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

Douglas Wilder

#18. The principles of true hip-hop have been forsaken,
It's all contractual and about money makin'.

Black Thought

#19. 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

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

Jaron Lanier

#21. I don't know why I should have been so pleased to see Lucas behaving like a gentleman for a change. I never liked the man ... But of course I know why. I would have defended Satan himself if he had been in disfavor with Emerson.

Elizabeth Peters

#22. 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

#23. The young people when I go to McDonald's, the Hispanic clerks will come by, 'Sheriff, can we have a picture?' over and over again. At least they want a picture with me.

Joe Arpaio

#24. 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

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

Joanna Shupe

#26. He slings his arm around my shoulder. I feel the question after he does it. -Is this okay?- I don't think it is. I don't know how to fold myself into him in any way that feels right.

Courtney Summers

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

Annalee Newitz

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

David Laskin