Quotes About Tinsel

Tinsel in February, tinsel in August. There are things in a man besides his reason.

Thought is a garment and the soul's a bride That cannot in that trash and tinsel hide: Hatred of God may bring the soul to God.

Titles are tinsel, power a corrupter, glorya bubble, and excessive wealth a libel on its possessor.

Mark shrugged. "You know we're going to eat half of them anyway." He gave a wicked grin and invited Cassidy into this fantasy world, where good boys really did get cookies and people sang Christmas carols while stringing tinsel.

Quality isn't something you lay on top of subjects and objects like tinsel on a Christmas tree. Real Quality must be the source of the subjects and objects, the cone from which the tree must start.

Oh, heart, let's never grow too old To smile anew, when Christmas comes, At tassels red and tinsel thread, And tarlatan bags f sugarplums.

Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.

Christmas is not about tinsel and mistletoe or even ornaments and presents, but about what means will we use toward the end of a peace from heaven upon our earth. Or is "peace on earth" but a Christmas ornament taken each year from attic or basement and returned there as soon as possible?

Charm is like tinsel without the tree. What's tinsel without the tree? Shredded tinfoil.

Charm is like tinsel without the tree. What's tinsel without the tree? Shredded tinfoil. I

Charm is like tinsel without the tree. What's tinsel without the tree? Shredded tinfoil.

Our sweet illusions are half of them conscious illusions, like effects of colour that we know to be made up of tinsel, broken glass and rags.

Time, which runs through the world like an endless tinsel thread, seemed to pass through the centre of this room and through the centre of these people and suddenly to pause and petrify, stiff, still and glittering... and the objects in the room drew a little closer together.

Grief is a room without doors - but somehow, with its tinsel and cliches, Christmas finds a way in.

After Pride, Christmas is a drag queen's next best holiday. It's pretty gay, full of tinsel and glitter and finery and campness.

The thing about working in Hollywood is that, at some point, you really get tired of hearing how godless you are, and how if you and the rest of the heathens in Tinsel town would put more God-centric shows on TV, people wouldn't be abandoning prime time in favor of their Bible study classes.

We expect too much at Christmas. It's got to be magical. It's got to go right. Feasting. Fun. The perfect present. All that anticipation. Take it easy. Love's the thing. The rest is tinsel.

Even now, what I love above all else, is form, provided it be beautiful, and nothing beyond it. Women whose hearts are too ardent and whose minds too exclusive do not understand this religion of beauty, beauty considered apart from emotion. They always demand a cause, an end, I admire tinsel as much as gold: indeed, the poetry of tinsel is even greater, because it is sadder.

Acting is my passion since childhood, and I am happy to be in Tinsel Town at a very young age.

Tinsel on our Christmas trees is a Hart family staple started by my grandmother, Helen Hart.

Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.

My Christmas tree glimmered with lights, ornaments, and tinsel. Though such holiday trimmings weren't in vogue any longer, I loved them. I pulled every box of family decorations from the attic and glamored the tree until it looked like a "fancy woman in a cheap brothel" as my aunt Loulane would say.

This barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment.

We scarcely thought in our own hall to hear This barren verbiage, current among men, Light coin, the tinsel clink of compliment...