Best Curtain Lines

265 Curtain quotes by 231 unique authors

The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power! We reach forth and strain every nerve, but we… — Maria Mitchell
The majority don't like me before the curtain goes up, and I always have to win them. — David Hare
I always feel that there is a curtain, you know, that if I could just peek behind the curtain I'd see how the world really… — Charles de Lint
The doctrine of the Second Coming teaches us that we do not and cannot know when the world drama will end. The curtain may be… — C.S. Lewis
Let the thick curtain fall;I better know than allHow little I have gained,How vast the unattained. — John Greenleaf Whittier
The low green tent Whose curtain never outward swings. — John Greenleaf Whittier
Working on an essay versus a novel is like the difference between seeing to that curtain and seeing to New Jersey. — Sloane Crosley
I miss theater. I miss living the arc of the character, from curtain to curtain, and I miss the immediate audience response. — David Anders
In these times of the 'Great Recession', we shouldn't be trying to shift the benefits of wealth behind some curtain. We should be celebrating and… — Mark Cuban
I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs,… — Bob Dylan
From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve. — Jerry Falwell
In World War II, jazz absolutely was the music of freedom, and then in the Cold War, behind the Iron Curtain, same thing. It was… — Herbie Hancock
Conscience is the window of our spirit, evil is the curtain. — Douglas Horton
Anybody who's done standup will tell you that there's nothing like it. The show starts at 8:00, the curtain goes up and there's nobody else… — Denis Leary
Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain. — James Russell Lowell
When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away. — Harold MacMillan
I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up. — Groucho Marx
Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart. — Rainer Maria Rilke
Why do we need to wait until somebody sells 10 million records to give people a show like that? What about us smaller, hungry folk?… — Angie Stone
To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain. — Henry David Thoreau
On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth and sky, which unhappily extended as far as the… — Jules Verne
The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it. — Elwyn Brooks White

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