Tinsel Quotes

Recession-resistant development produces things people need. Unsustainable growth churns out tinsel products that consumers have to be seduced into buying – until times get tough, when they quickly give them up.

Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.

The value of a man is in his intrinsic qualities: in that of which power cannot strip him and which adverse fortune cannot take away. That for which he is indebted to circumstances is mere trapping and tinsel.

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

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

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

I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.

The truth is that the gossip-hounds in Tinsel Town and the cackling windbags at ‘The View‘ don’t want civility. They want catty (or dare I say it gay-ish) gossip and sensational headlines that provide them with an opportunity to hop on the bully pulpit.

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.

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

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.