The gentleman is solid mahogany; the fashionable man is only veneer. — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
It's the spirit within, not the veneer without, that makes a man. — Baden Powell de Aquino Copy Share Image
I think there is this steely strength beneath this beautiful veneer that a lot of women possess. I can't fathom or understand… — Bryan Batt Copy Share Image
Underneath this veneer of slightly crazy and mildly socially retarded, I'm a complete disaster. — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
Maybe there's a sort of veneer of optimism about U.S. comedy, whereas perhaps in England, we don't mind ending it on a… — Stephen Merchant Copy Share Image
I like to show subjects inside a sealed veneer. There's a sense that you can't get in. — Steven Klein Copy Share Image
Far from poisoning the mind, pornography shows the deepest truth about sexuality, stripped of romantic veneer. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Leftism hides under an intellectual veneer, but underneath it is all emotion — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
“Some people’s elegance was only skin-deep, scrape off a little bit of the veneer and you got the real wood—common” — D.E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
Arrogance is a veneer -- a thin covering of excuses hiding deep performance deficiencies. — Bob Lewis Copy Share Image
Only when the true ends of society have nothing to do with the sublime does "culture" become necessary as a veneer to… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
If you look at weak democracies, the oligarchies that have taken undue control of them always seek to tamper with the vote.… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
The queers of the sixties, like those since, have connived with their repression under a veneer of respectability. Good mannered city queens… — Derek Jarman Copy Share Image
In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me,… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People think it's this veneer - that the designers… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Therefore, teaching, talk and tale, however lucid or fascinating, effect nothing until self-activity be set up; that is, self-education is the only… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
You feel a certain way in a glass or concrete or limestone building. It has an effect on your skin - the… — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
Barrons has something the rest of us don't have. I don't know what it is, but I feel it all the time,… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
I was convinced that worship at its best is a social experience with people of all levels of life coming together to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“No matter how hard she tried to maintain her calm and collected persona, she knew it was all a ruse. All she… — Cristiane Serruya Copy Share Image
Guns, double-crosses, hitmen... I can get used to a lot of things, but I'm never going to get used to sleeping where… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To the non-combatants and those on the periphery of action, the war meant only boredom or occasional excitement, but to those who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are loads of sociopolitical, racial, class and future-planet situations that really interest me, but I'm not really interested in making a… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
Knowing is a veneer out minds create and lay over the landscape like a painter's drop cloth set upon a forest floor.… — Greg Kramer Copy Share Image
“WHO AM I? I have seven heavenly panels Leading up to a pointed sphere I’m multidimensional like a crystal And my center… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“True beauty lies not upon gilded veneers, But found in the soul within.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The veneer of civilization is like that on the kitchen counter - very thin.” — Malcolm Watts Copy Share Image
“The problem with wearing a facade is that sooner or later life shows up with a big pair of scissors.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything. — George Washington Carver Copy Share Image
