All, as they say, that glitters is not gold. — John Dryden
These flattering mirrors reflect imperfectly what is within; the countenance is often a gay deceiver. What defects of mind lie hidden under its beauty! What fair exteriors conceal base souls! — Pierre Corneille
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. — Leo Tolstoy
Dirty, stained, withered, broken things seem beautiful to me. — Yohji Yamamoto
Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles. — Sir Thomas Browne
Fortune is like glass--the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken. — Publilius Syrus
[The Master] doesn't glitter like a jewel... [but is] as rugged and common as a stone. — Lao Tzu
A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no luster as you turn it in your hand, until you come to a particular angle; then it shows deep and beautiful colors. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A company shouldn't get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn't last. — Jeff Bezos
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior. — Juvenal
Short Tarnished Quotes
Down these mean streets a man must go who is neither tarnished nor afraid — Raymond Chandler
When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished. — Adam Weishaupt
Don't allow the coldness and fear of others to tarnish your perfectly vulnerable beating heart. — Zooey Deschanel
The duty of lovers is to tarnish the Golden Rule — Leonard Cohen
Just because there's tarnish on the copper, doesn't mean there's not a shine beneath. — Laurence Yep
Once trust is tarnished, it is hard to restore it to its original glow. — William Arthur Ward
Should envious tongues some malice frame; to soil and tarnish your good name; Live it Down! — Henry Rink
I have a great legacy, tarnished somewhat by the move. — Art Modell
Many of our leadership practices have gone from being tried and true to being tired and tarnished. — Mark Millar
The funny thing about gold is how quickly it can tarnish. — Robyn
How Do You Shine Quotes
As you go through life's rich tapestry, you realize that most people you meet aren't fit to shine your shoes. It's a sad fact, but it's true. A good friend is someone who'd hide you if you were on the run for murder. How many of them do you know? — Lemmy Kilmister
How wonderful is Cold Mountain Climbers are all afraid The moon shines on clear water twinkle twinkle Wind rustles the tall grass Plum trees flower in the snow Bare twisted trees have clouds for foliage A touch of rain brings it all alive Unless you see clearly do not approach — Hanshan
The human condition can be summed up in a drop of blood. Show me a teaspoon of blood and I will reveal to thee the ineffable nature of the cosmos, naked and squirming. Squirming. Funny how the truth always seems to do that when you shine a light on it. — Laird Barron
I am generalizing, of course, but in hip-hop, it's like you get this shine for using the word "pussy" a billion times, and I think that that's weirdly healthier than not doing it at all - even though I really hope it ends soon because, you know, how many decades can we do that? — Justin Vernon
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. — Anais Nin
Though you be sprung in direct line from Hercules, if you show a lowborn meanness, that long succession of ancestors whom you disgrace are so many witnesses against you; and this grand display of their tarnished glory but serves to make your ignominy more evident. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
The work is hindered. The glory of God is tarnished and it is because the people of God no longer know how to discern the things of God. — Paul Washer
There is an attempt to tarnish Turkey by using press freedom when it is in fact measures taken against terrorism, i dispute this. Nowhere in Europe or in other countries is there a media that is as free as the press in Turkey. — Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Yellow is my favorite, but what is yellow? Handmaiden to white, it is a slight tarnish of pure light. Take away a bit of whites absolute luminosity, and what remains is yellow -- sunlike, golden as a crown, buttercups in a field, marsh marigolds, a finch's wing, a plastic flute. — Richard Grossinger
Evil lives in a pit. If you want to fight it, you must climb down into the slime to do so. White cloaks show the dirt more thank black, and silver tarnishes. — David Gemmell
The emotions between the races could never be pure; even love was tarnished by the desire to find in the other some element that was missing in ourselves. Whether we sought out our demons or salvation, the other race would always remain just that: menacing, alien, and apart. — Barack Obama
Has he some psychological antipathy to realism? I am no psychologist, and cannot say. The fact remains that Euwe commits the most inexplicable mistakes in thoroughly favorable positions, and that this weakness has consistently tarnished his record. — Hans Kmoch
This is a precious possession which we cannot afford to tarnish, but society always is attempting to make the physician into a killer to kill the defective child at birth, to leave the sleeping pills beside the bed of the cancer patient ... It is the duty of society to protect the physicians from such requests. — Margaret Mead
Remember, in our inmost being, we are all completely lovable because spirit is love. Beyond what anyone can make you think or feel about yourself, your unconditioned spirit stands, shining with a love nothing can tarnish. — Deepak Chopra
It is unfortunate that the poor judgment shown by a small group of young actors has tarnished the reputation of every child who has ever appeared before a camera. — Fred Savage
In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption. It may be pure tragedy, if it is high tragedy, and it may be pity and irony, and it may be the raucous laughter of the strong man. But down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. — Raymond Chandler
To be continually subject to the breath of slander, will tarnish the purest virtue, as a constant exposure to the atmosphere will obscure the brightness of the finest gold; but in either case, the real value of both continues the same, although the currency may be somewhat impeded. — Charles Caleb Colton
When will I ever learn to accept what is given instead of always yearning for more? My lavish expectations too often tarnish my blessings. — Joan Anderson
We need to laugh at the irrationality of evil, for in doing so we deny evil's power over us, diminish its influence in the world, and tarnish the allure it has for some people. — Dean Koontz
Somebody has to go polish the stars, They're looking a little bit dull. Somebody has to go polish the stars, For the eagles and starlings and gulls Have all been complaining they're tarnished and worn, They say they want new ones we cannot afford. So please get your rags And your polishing jars, Somebody has to go polish the stars. — Shel Silverstein
Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid... He is the hero, he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor, by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world. — Raymond Chandler
Slave to a springtime passion for the earth.How Love burns through the Putting in the SeedOn through the watching for that early birthWhen, just as the soil tarnishes with weed,The sturdy seedling with arched body comesShouldering its way and shedding the earth crumbs. — Robert Frost
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. — Anais Nin
In 1980, a nation in need of change selected Ronald Reagan to restore the shine to a tarnished America. — William L. Jenkins
Now, we used to say we put on our tights to put on the world. So I don't think it tarnishes the image at all. — Burt Ward
Tim Kaine didn't come across authentic. It wasn't good. And it was - it just really - I think, for short-term benefit, I think the Democrats tarnished the brand, which is an awfully good brand. — Mark Shields
You know, "Moonlight" deserves best picture [on Oscar]. What I mean by tarnished is the moment - being able to be in front of all your peers and being able to thank everyone involved and particularly when it's a movie that has some pivotal social relevance, like "Moonlight," particularly in a time where, with this new transitional government, LGBT rights are just being stripped. This win means something. — Cheo Hodari Coker
To the extent anybody had heard of the [Charles] Kushner name at that point, it was a very tarnished name. — Steve Kornacki
The gloomy recess of an ecclesiastical library is like a harbor, into which a far-traveling curiosity has sailed with its freight, and cast anchor. The ponderous tomes are bales of the mind's merchandise. Odors of distant countries and times steal from the red leaves, the swelling ridges of vellum, and the titles in tarnished gold. — Robert Aris Willmott
It is easy for us to tarnish God's character because He never argues back; He never tries to defend or vindicate himself. — Oswald Chambers
I cherish the review-as-literature; as lapidary journalism in the eighteenth-century mode, the last hard sparkling diamond in theessayists's tarnished crown. To me, writing a good review is not just a way to make extra money, but a sacred duty. — Florence King
I would love a recurring role on '90210.' I would say yes to just about any role in acting that doesn't tarnish my image. — Vinny Guadagnino
There was always a real reason for everything - why spoons tarnished, and jam furred, and people declined into God, or drink, or card games. — Edna O'Brien
Some things are so silly they have a certain brilliance to them. Other things, set as standards for brilliance and therefore exalted by many who don't know why, become tarnished because of it. — Criss Jami
I've spent my fortune, tarnished my public view and made myself the brunt of punch line after punch line. — Mindy McCready
A make-up artist I know polished her Oscar and it lost its lustre. But if you don't polish it, it doesn't tarnish. — Jim Broadbent
It's been awhile. My Oscar is getting kind of tarnished. I looked at it a couple of years ago and thought I really needed a new one. — Ellen Burstyn
Just as gold tarnished in depth (cf. Jms. 5:3) cannot be properly purified and restored to its proper brightness unless it is cast in the fire and thoroughly hammered with mallets, so when the soul has been tarnished with the rust of sin and become thoroughly useless it cannot be cleansed and recover its original beauty unless it meets many trials and enter into the furnace of tribulations. — Symeon the New Theologian
And as hearbes and trees are bettered and fortified by being transplanted, so formes of speach are embellished and graced by variation.... As in our ordinary language, we shall sometimes meete with excellent phrases, and quaint metaphors, whose blithnesse fadeth through age, and colour is tarnish by to common using them. — Michel de Montaigne
In Conclusion
Which quotation resonated with you best? Did you enjoy our collection of tarnished quotes? Or may be you have a slogan about tarnished to suggest. Let us know using our contact form.
Citation
Feel free to cite and use any of the quotes in this collection of tarnished quotations. For popular citation styles(APA, Chicago, MLA), please use this citation page.
