Veil Quotes

Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces.

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

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.

A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

There was the Door to which I found no key; There was the Veil through which I might see.

The men and women cut their hair close round to the ears and eyes. The women, after the manner of the Parthians, cover their heads with a large white veil, folded together in the form of a crown.

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.

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

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

The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.

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

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

Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

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

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?

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.

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

Painters have always needed a sort of veil upon which they can focus their attention. It's as though the more fully the consciousness is absorbed, the greater the freedom of the spirit behind.

Today we are searching for things in nature that are hidden behind the veil of appearance... We look for and paint this inner, spiritual side of nature.

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.

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

The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed.

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.

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

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

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.

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.'

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

Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.

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.