Curtains Quotes
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Let the thick curtain fall;I better know than allHow little I have gained,How vast the unattained.
— John Greenleaf Whittier
Afternoon light slanted in through the parted curtains, laying bars of gold across the floor.
— Cassandra Clare
The light can be a curtain as well as the darkness.
— George Eliot
I might point out that the rich do not so much buy honesty as curtains to cover dishonesty.
— G.K. Chesterton
Lillian Gish may be a charming person, but she is not Ophelia. She comes on stage as if she had been sent for to sew rings on the new curtains.
— Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Her beauty climbed the rolling slope, it came into the room, rustling ghost-like through the curtains ...
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Fall the deep curtains,delicate the weave,
fair the thread. — Hilda Doolittle
An iron curtain has descended over Europe.
— Winston Churchill
Only then, invisible to everyone and with her curtains drawn, did she allow her tears to fall: in love, and for his hurts, and in terrible pride.
— Guy Gavriel Kay
Your meat curtains smell like a dirty, dead whore that fucked a dirty, dead gorilla.
— Debra Anastasia
Better to go out to see the world one time with his own eyes, than to be burned alive with the plastic curtains.
— Hugh Howey
In reality, conclusions are muddy, there are no final curtains, and life just goes on.
— Sam Waterston
Hell take curtains! Go with some show of inconvenience; sit openly - to the weather as to grief. Or do you think you can shut your grief in?
— William Carlos Williams
How like a queen comes forth the lonely Moon From the slow opening curtains of the clouds Walking in beauty to her midnight throne!
— George Croly
Pessimism drops the curtain on tomorrow.
— Robert H. Schuller
What woke him was a subconscious awareness of atmospheric change. The billowing curtains over his east windows looked like a fat ghostly intruder.
— Carolyn Weston
Obviously some cheap motel is missing a shower curtain.
— Bobby Heenan
I made her the queen of my double wide trailer with the polyester curtains and redwood deck.
— Sammy Kershaw
I read, and, in reading, lifted the Curtains of the Impossible that blind the mind, and looked out into the unknown.
— William Hope Hodgson
Weigh down your curtains with a proper 5-inch hem. It makes them much more proportioned and professional-looking.
— Emily Henderson
You know you knit too much when ... Before you buy anything, such as a hammock or curtains, you seriously wonder whether you could knit it.
— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
The curtain of the universe is moth-eaten, and through its holes we see nothing now but mask and ghost.
— Emile M. Cioran
Working on an essay versus a novel is like the difference between seeing to that curtain and seeing to New Jersey.
— Sloane Crosley
I am the Wizard of Oz of housewives (in that I am both "Great and Terrible" and because I sometimes hide behind the curtains
— Jenny Lawson
I used to cover my windows in heavy curtains, never drawn. Now I danced in the sunlight on my hardwood floors.
— Kimberly Novosel
After all, no one is ever taken in by the happy ending, but we are often divinely fuddled by the tragic curtain.
— Lionel Trilling
If you want to gnaw greenery in the morning for health reasons, do it in your own home with the curtains drawn.
— Victoria Coren Mitchell
It's hard to part the curtains when the dark holds such familiarity.
— Donna Lynn Hope
What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked between walls and curtains, is only a light and living slumber to the man who sleeps a-field.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
In the baby's roomThe city lights are
Milky
In the curtains ...
Breath
Gentle as rain,
Sleep
Quiet as snowflakes — John Geddes
She decided she wanted a cool, starchy independent life, with ruffles of humor like window curtains.
— Mary McCarthy
The fringed curtains of thine eye advance,And say what thou seest yond. — William Shakespeare
You had to make sure that the tone of your dress was not the same tone as the curtains, for instance.
— Julie Harris
I have a lot of gadgets, remote controls for everything - the curtains, pool cover - it's like The Jetsons!
— Lil' Romeo
The curtains would open and it would be just her standing in some ludicrous pose, like Aphrodite.
— Lesley-Anne Down
Wind likes to open the curtains; wisdom likes to open the curtains!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
You were a furious bulland I was a china shop
with beautiful red curtains. — Danabelle Gutierrez
Bring down the curtain, the farce is over
— Francois Rabelais
We humans have always needed rituals to draw like curtains over the chasms of the unknown. Without them we go mad, I think.
— Patricia J. Williams
The sun was beginning to pull the curtains on the day.
— Yann Martel
We are all actors, set on the stage of the world, as the curtains open we put on our best performance to this audience of life.
— Anthony Liccione
Leave the shower curtain on the inside of the tub.
— Conrad Hilton
It is well for young men to have a model, but let them draw the curtain over it while they are painting.
— Paul Gauguin
We are all just little dolls of ourselves. Who occasionally pull back the curtains to reveal the real us.
— Bruce Eric Kaplan
At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
— E. M. Forster
As soon as you just walk through the curtains and the crowd's there, everything's good after that.
— Gail Kim
O timid one, awaken, exert yourself, draw back the curtains your training and background have hung over the windows of your soul.
— Spencer W. Kimball
The curtains were made for moving Cause you know sometimes you're not always there
— John Frusciante
I might occasionally forget how to open a car door and have too many shower curtains, but I've got some standards.
— MaryJanice Davidson
She had a vague idea that "decadent" had something to do with not opening the curtains all day.
— Terry Pratchett
A girl in a crown of stars was coming toward him, but before she could see who he was he slipped through his curtains of flesh.
— Kathryn Davis
It was blue. All of it: rugs, hangings, curtains ... 'This room looks as if someone vomited the sky,' Layla said.
— Eloisa James
There's something in life that's a curtain, and I keep trying to raise it.
— Maxine Hong Kingston
I would have it inscribed on the curtains of your bed and the walls of your chamber: "If you do not rise early you can make progress in nothing."
— William Pitt, 1st Earl Of Chatham
That's the difference between life and art, of course. Life has no frames, no curtains, no beginnings and no endings.
— Orson Scott Card
Books must be wind and pull the curtains.
— Nazim Hikmet
Haunted trees covered behind the curtains of their own leaves
stare at the dark
from the fringe of streets. — Suman Pokhrel
I miss theater. I miss living the arc of the character, from curtain to curtain, and I miss the immediate audience response.
— David Anders
Remember to tuck the shower curtain inside the bathtub.
— Conrad Hilton
It's curtains for you, Mighty Mouse! This gun is so futuristic that even I don't know how it works!
— Ralph Bakshi
I drew the curtains to conceal the sight of my father's farewell; my spite was sharp as broken glass.
— Angela Carter
Hey, monkey pussy, you might want to give those meat curtains a spit shine before you leave the house.
— Debra Anastasia
Pincushions. I'm a long time threatening to buy one. Sticking them all over the place. Needles in window curtains.
— James Joyce
If shadows are curtains, mirrors are windows.
— James Pratt
A persistent breeze lifted the thin curtains, fluttering a few moments of tranquility into the turbulent day.
— Susan Abulhawa
You and me are going to have so much fun, Rose. Picking out curtains, doing each other's hair, telling ghost stories ...
— Richelle Mead
We will draw the curtain and show you the picture.
— William Shakespeare
