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  • I love crazy, gaudy bling.

  • A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity. His most gaudy sayings and doings seldom deceive them; they see the actual man within, and know him for a shallow and pathetic fellow. In this fact, perhaps, lies one of the best proofs of feminine intelligence, or, as the common phrase makes it, feminine intuition.

    Women   Lying   Intuition  
    H. L. Mencken (2015). “In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality”, p.6, 谷月社
  • People who invest make money for themselves; people who speculate make money for their brokers. And that, in turn, is why Wall Street perennially downplays the durable virtues of investing and hypes the gaudy appeal of speculation.

    Wall   Hype   People  
    Benjamin Graham (2009). “The Intelligent Investor, Rev. Ed”, p.36, Harper Collins
  • You're looking, sir, at a very dull survivor of a very gaudy life. Crippled, paralyzed in both legs. Very little I can eat, and my sleep is so near waking that it's hardly worth the name. I seem to exist largely on heat, like a newborn spider.

    Sleep   Names   Legs  
  • The aim of poetry, it appears, is to fill the mind with lofty thoughts--not to give it joy, but to give it a grand and somewhat gaudy sense of virtue. The essay is a weapon against the degenerate tendencies of the age. The novel, properly conceived, is a means of uplifting the spirit; its aim is to inspire, not merely to satisfy the low curiosity of man in man.

    Uplifting   Mean   Men  
    H. L. Mencken, Marion Elizabeth Rodgers (2010). “H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series”, Hubsta Ltd
  • Capitalism, gaudy and greedy, has been inherent in western aesthetics from ancient Egypt on. It is the mysticism and glamour of things , which take on a personality of their own. As an economic system, it is in the Darwinian line of Sade, not Rousseau.

    Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson”, Vintage
  • Baseball outfits went through their gaudy period during the disco '70's, when the White Sox looked like softball players and the Athletics looked like 'Saturday Night Fever' personified.

  • A lot of people have said I'd have probably done better in my career if I hadn't looked so cheap and gaudy. But I dress to be comfortable for me, and you shouldn't be blamed because you want to look pretty.

  • As for Lindbergh, another eminent servant of science, all he proved by his gaudy flight across the Atlantic was that God takes care of those who have been so fortunate as to come into the world foolish. Expressing skepticism that adventure does not necessarily contribute to scientific knowledge.

    Adventure   World   Care  
  • There be delights that will fetch the day about from sun to sun and rock the tedious year as in a delightful dream ... For a garden is Arcady brought home. It is man's bit of gaudy make-believe - his well-disguised fiction of an unvexed Paradise ... a world where gayety knows no eclipse and winter and rough weather are held at bay.

    Dream   Time   Believe  
  • There is no friend like the old friend, who has shared our morning days, No greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise: Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

    Sweet   Morning   Real  
  • Costly thy habit [dress] as thy purse can buy; But not expressed in fancy - rich, not gaudy. For the apparel oft proclaims the man.

    Men   Dresses   Fancy  
    'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58
  • This film "Phantom" takes everything that's wrong with Broadway and puts it on the big screen in a gaudy splat.

    "The Phantom of the Opera" by Stephanie Zacharek, www.salon.com. December 23, 2004.
  • Dark City Blue is a freight train of a thriller crashing through some madhouse city night while a bomb's ticking down to zero. It's the cage fighting equivalent of a police procedural: violent, gaudy, and packing heat.

    Zero   Fighting   Dark  
  • It's gaudy, ugly, and in terribly bad taste. It does, however, suit my personality almost perfectly.

    Personality   Doe   Ugly  
    David Eddings (2010). “King Of The Murgos: (Malloreon 2)”, p.243, Random House
  • ...no man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be lured upon the stage, as philosophers are occasionally lured into bordellos, his mind would be inevitably and almost immediately destroyed by the gaudy nonsense issuing from his mouth every night.

    Men   Night   Mind  
    H.L. MENCKEN (1958). “PREJUDICES A SELECTION”
  • It is difficult to believe that even idiots ever succumbed to such transparent contradictions, to such gaudy processions of mere counter-words, to so vast and obvious a nonsensicalitysentence after sentence that has no apparent meaning at all--stuff quite as bad as the worst bosh of Warren Gamaliel Harding.

    Believe   Style   Stuff  
  • A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

    "Gaudy Night". Book by Dorothy L. Sayers, 1936.
  • In these gaudy times, we think we will shortly reach the point where everything is known, but the fact is we are ignoring the essential, which is love of all living things, of all beauty both visible and hidden.

  • Beware Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in, Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man.

    Men   Voice   Giving  
    'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58
  • That admiration of the 'neat but not gaudy,' which is commonly reported to have influenced the devil when he painted his tail pea green.

    Devil   Tails   Green  
    John Ruskin (2010). “The Poetry of Architecture - Cottage, Villa, Etc - To Which Is Added Suggestions on Works of Art”, p.161, Orchard Press
  • It was like that all the time, in those years: an endless trip, a gaudy voyage. But powers decay. Time leaches the colors from the best of visions. The world becomes grayer. Entropy beats us down. Everything fades. Everything goes. Everything dies.

    Color   Years   Vision  
    Robert Silverberg (2009). “Dying Inside”, p.116, Macmillan
  • Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the rose, with sweets in every fold.

    Friendship   Sweet   Rose  
  • We Jews, thank God, have nothing to do with the East. . . . The Islamic soul must be broomed out of Eretz-Yisrael. . . . [Muslims are] yelling rabble dressed up in gaudy, savage rags.

    Islamic   Yelling   Soul  
  • Greatness, thou gaudy torment of out souls, The wise man's fetter, and the rage of fools.

    Wise   Greatness   Men  
  • But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

    Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Poems 2”, p.147, Reprint Services Corporation
  • Unformed people delight in the gaudy and in novelty. Cooked people delight in the ordinary.

    "Ousterhout and Tcl lost the plot with latest paper". Usenet discussion groups, groups.google.com. September 4, 1997.
  • The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

    Tattoo   Sexy   Passion  
    Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Gaudy Night”, p.587, Open Road Media
  • A word about 'plain English.' The phrase certainly shouldn't connote drab and dreary language. Actually, plain English is typically quite interesting to read. It's robust and direct-the opposite of gaudy, pretentious language. You achieve plain English when you use the simplest, most straightforward way of expressing an idea. You can still choose interesting words. But you'll avoid fancy ones that have everyday replacements meaning precisely the same thing.

    Bryan A. Garner (2013). “Legal Writing in Plain English, Second Edition: A Text with Exercises”, p.14, University of Chicago Press
  • When they asked some old Roman philosopher or other how he wanted to die, he said he would open his veins in a warm bath. I thought it would be easy, lying in the tup and seeing the redness flower from my wrists, flush after flush through the clear water, till I sank into sleep under a surface gaudy as poppies.

    Lying   Flower   Sleep  
    Sylvia Plath (2008). “The Bell Jar”, p.110, Faber & Faber
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