Veil Quotes

322 Veil quotes by 260 unique authors

You can't just draw a veil of secrecy when you are locking people up. You have to do at least the minimum, which is to… — Jamie Fellner
Time and times are but cogwheels, unmatched, grinding on oblivious to one another. Occasionally - oh, very rarely! - the cogs fit; the pieces of… — Robert E. Howard
I thank the Lord that I may have passed some of the tests, but maybe there will have to be more before I shall have… — Harold B. Lee
Death, with funereal shades in vain surrounds me, My reason through his darkness seeth light: 'Tis the last step which brings me close to Thee:… — Alphonse de Lamartine
And when night, guiding her bright train of stars, Throws o'er the sleeping world her gloomy veil, Lonely amidst the desert and the darkness, Musing… — Alphonse de Lamartine
The Primrose for a veil had spread The largest of her upright leaves; And thus for purposes benign, A simple flower deceives. — William Wordsworth
A girl's coquetry is of the simplest, she thinks that all is said when the veil is laid aside; a woman's coquetry is endless, she… — Honore de Balzac
Clouds signify the veil of the Most High. — Honore de Balzac
Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things. — Edwin Percy Whipple
The pretender sees no one but himself, Because he has the veil of conceit in front; If he were endowed with a God discerning eye,… — Bill Vaughan
Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation. — Khalil Gibran
The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion. — Juliana Hatfield
A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil. — Victor Hugo
Virtue has a veil, vice a mask. — Victor Hugo
Official history is merely a veil to hide the truth of what really happened. When the veil is lifted, again and again we see that… — David Icke
There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see. — Omar Khayyam
If the world's a veil of tears, Smile till rainbows span it. — Lucy Larcom
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… — Simon Mainwaring
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… — Maria Monk
I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane. — Marilyn Monroe
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… — Erin Morgenstern
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… — Edgar Allan Poe
I have nothing against the veil. And I think that, wrongly, many in the West look at the veil as a symbol of oppression. Now,… — Queen Rania of Jordan
The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance. — John Rawls

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