Veil Quotes

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

Through, Kiss, Compliment

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

Poverty, Greatness, Face

I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.
Marilyn Monroe

Wanted, Happened, Wear

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'
Edgar Allan Poe

Nature, Art, Through

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
Victor Hugo

Virtue, Mask, Vice

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

Love, Mother, Heart

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

Marriage, Her, She

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

Life, Men, Wise

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

Life, Death, Live

Every now and then, President Obama sorta drops his veil. He's less coy about his philosophy, he sort of reveals his true governing philosophy, what he really believes.
Paul Ryan

True, Philosophy, Less

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

Beauty, Poetry, Makes

There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
Omar Khayyam

Through, Door, Might

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

Between, Faults, Thick

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

Themselves, Seen, Feminine

Executives can no longer hide behind the corporate veil. They need to be accountable for what their companies do, because entities are responsible for socially irresponsible behavior.
Simon Mainwaring

Behavior, Behind, Longer

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

Silence, Speak, Fall

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

Religion, Long, Behind

I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.
Florence Welch

Work, Learned, Talk

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

Future, Struggle, Through

It's said that All Hallows' Eve is one of the nights when the veil between the worlds is thin - and whether you believe in such things or not, those roaming spirits probably believe in you, or at least acknowledge your existence, considering that it used to be their own. Even the air feels different on Halloween, autumn-crisp and bright.
Erin Morgenstern

Different, Said, Between

This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry?
Azar Nafisi

Marriage, Time, Good

And one of the things that I learned was you can't generalise at all about a woman in a veil. You can't think you know her story, because she will confound you over and over again. She may be an engineer or a diplomat or a doctor. Or she may be an unbelievable babe with bleached hair down to her waist.
Geraldine Brooks

Woman, May, Down

My wedding was at home, so I didn't really want to wear a veil in my house. Instead I wore a lot of diamond hair clips. They were brooches, actually, designed by Lorraine Schwartz.
Georgina Chapman

Home, Wedding, Hair

If the world's a veil of tears, Smile till rainbows span it.
Lucy Larcom

Smile, Tears, Rainbows

Religion was used as an ideology, as a system of control. When they forced the veil upon women, they were using it as an instrument of control in the same way that in Mao's China people were wearing Mao jackets and women were not supposed to wear any makeup.
Azar Nafisi

Religion, Women, Control

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

Humility, Necessary, Graces

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

Before, Rich, Far

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

Children, Game, Country

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

Nature, Hope, Truth

You would like me to say that the veil will be ripped from the voters' eyes sometime between now and November, thereby restoring the proper version of Democracy to the House and Senate. I won't say that, of course. The simple reason is, I don't know.
Gwen Ifill

Simple, Democracy, Eyes

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