Quotes about Gilded

He would come in and say he changed his mind -- which was a gilded figure of speech, because he didn't have any.

How can there ever be liberty under any system? No amount of profit-sharing or self-government by the workers, no amount of hyjeenic conditions or cocoa villages or recreation grounds can get rid of the fundamental slavery?—the necessity of working. Liberty? why, it doesn't exist! There's no liberty in this world; only gilded caiges.

Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded.

The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.