Quotes Tagged "veil"

I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not. Across the color-line I move arm in arm with Balzac and Dumas, where smiling men and welcoming women glide in gilded halls. From out the caves of the evening that swing between the strong-limbed earth and the tracery of the stars, I summon Aristotle and Aurelius... and they come all graciously with no scorn nor condescension. So, wed with Truth, I dwell above the Veil.

I have always thought that if women's hair posed so many problems, God would certainly have made us bald.

Le voile est essentielle pour le monde, soit par l'organisme, ou au moyen de la connaissance

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

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

Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces.

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.

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