Quotes of Veil - somelinesforyou

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

- Kahlil Gibran

“ Then should some cloud pass over The brow of sire or lover, Think 'tis the shade By Victory made Whose wings right o'er us hover! ”

- Thomas Moore

“ Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides:Who cover faults, at last shame them derides. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ All this talk and turmoil and noise and movement and desire is outside of the veil; within the veil is silence and calm and rest. ”

- Bayazid Al Bistami

“ No disguise can long conceal love where it exists, or long feign it where it is lacking. ”

- La Rochefoucauld

“ Sark, fairer than aught in the world that the lit skies cover, Laughs inly behind her cliffs, and the seafarers mark As a shrine where the sunlight serves, though the blown clouds hover, Sark. ”

- Algernon Charles Swinburne

“ Clouds on clouds, in volumes driven, Curtain round the vault of heaven. ”

- Thomas Love Peacock

“ So when the sun in bed, Curtain'd with cloudy red, Pillows his chin upon an orient wave. ”

- John Milton

“ Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find. ”

- Andre Breton

“ The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it. ”

- Jean Jacques Rousseau

“ There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not. ”

- La Rochefoucauld

“ There is no disguise which can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ No mask like open truth to cover lies,As to go naked is the best disguise. ”

- William Congreve

“ The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart. ”

- Johann Kaspar Lavater

“ Love blinds us to faults, but hatred blinds us to virtues. ”

- Ezra

“ The incognito of lower class employment is an effective cloak for any dagger one might wish to hide. ”

- Margaret Cho

“ Love is blind. ”

- Geoffrey Chaucer

“ Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well. ”

- Alexander Smith

“ Every local and national reporter out there, whether they were covering the devastation or the looting or the health scare or the politics, was undergoing a screen test. ”

- Robert Thompson

“ It's another shade of improvement. ”

- Roger Williams

“ I have nothing to hide in art. The initial force alone can bring anyone to the end he must attain. ”

- Paul Cezanne

“ Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near. ”

- Sophocles

“ Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God. ”

- Honore de Balzac

“ Anyone of us can be a rainbow in somebody's clouds. I want the University of Cincinnati to be a rainbow in the clouds. The University of Cincinnati is really a possibility of hope; it is a rainbow. ”

- Maya Angelou

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

- Khalil Gibran

“ Naked is the best disguise. ”

- Jeanette Winterson

“ A blind person using a screen reader must experience the links one after another, which is rather inconvenient. They've got better things to do. ”

- Joe Clark
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