A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.
Helen Rowland

A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
Victor Hugo

A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.
Frederick William Robertson

Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.
George William Russell

As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion.
Juliana Hatfield

Before I took the veil, I was ornamented for the ceremony, and was clothed in a rich dress belonging to the Convent, which was used on such occasions; and placed not far from the altar in the chapel, in the view of a number of spectators who had assembled, perhaps about forty.
Maria Monk

Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.
Alfred Nobel

Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces.
William Gurnall

Let the veil of silence fall presently over what happened afterwards. Silence, too, can speak out.
Lech Walesa

Mysteries are feminine; they like to veil themselves but still want to be seen and divined.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Our 1 million members across the country will be watching closely to see if the video game industry hides behind a First Amendment veil in order to exploit children for the sake of corporate profit.
Connie Sellecca

Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
Lord Chesterfield

Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind.
Bridget Riley

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.
Kahlil Gibran

Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction.
Poppy Z. Brite

The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The men and women cut their hair close round to the ears and eyes. The women, after the manner of the Parthians, cover their heads with a large white veil, folded together in the form of a crown.
Giraldus Cambrensis